Alan, I am just barely catching up with your recent posts. I'm so sad about your Tulip Tree! Good for you seeing about growing some shoots! It's rather scary about your water situation. Is there rationing now?
We have water meters now, and watering restrictions have become slightly stronger. But the water supply around here is pretty good and will be getting better. (The city has rights to river water that it has never used, but preparations are under way.) Farmers (who use 80-85% of California's water) have been cutting back; more land (some of which should never have been irrigated) fallowed or turned to other uses (notably solar power generation), less thirsty crops, and drip irrigation. Near Fresno, and using the same aquifer, the farmers have sufficient water that they continue to use flood irrigation, some whining all the time. What the farmers pay for water is trivial compared to what people in the cities pay. But when the farmers suck the aquifers dry, they have a problem. It's the tragedy of the commons. Some small towns' groundwater supplies are exhausted, but the state and feds are finally moving to help them. --Alan
Work today was significantly less onerous than the day before. I mean to watch "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" this evening, starting soon. I meant for that to happen a couple of evening back, but it didn't happen.
Ah, Dean.
ReplyDeleteAlan, I am just barely catching up with your recent posts. I'm so sad about your Tulip Tree! Good for you seeing about growing some shoots!
ReplyDeleteIt's rather scary about your water situation. Is there rationing now?
We have water meters now, and watering restrictions have become slightly stronger. But the water supply around here is pretty good and will be getting better. (The city has rights to river water that it has never used, but preparations are under way.) Farmers (who use 80-85% of California's water) have been cutting back; more land (some of which should never have been irrigated) fallowed or turned to other uses (notably solar power generation), less thirsty crops, and drip irrigation. Near Fresno, and using the same aquifer, the farmers have sufficient water that they continue to use flood irrigation, some whining all the time. What the farmers pay for water is trivial compared to what people in the cities pay. But when the farmers suck the aquifers dry, they have a problem. It's the tragedy of the commons. Some small towns' groundwater supplies are exhausted, but the state and feds are finally moving to help them.
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I smiled over your inflatable car notes! :-)
ReplyDeleteDid you watch the video?
Oh, yes! Whence the "road zepplin" reference.
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Also, that link you posted on how another Democrat might challenge Hilary Clinton is so good I'm going to repost it here!
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Glad you liked it. Authenticity is a significant challenge for HRC, I think.
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warm sunny morning/cool gray wet evening. kiddle's arriving a day early. so much for planning.
ReplyDeleteOops! Left todayy's comment on yesterday's thread. On the iPhone.
ReplyDeleteWork today was significantly less onerous than the day before. I mean to watch "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" this evening, starting soon. I meant for that to happen a couple of evening back, but it didn't happen.
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