Maggie's Farm

California is a huge agricultural state using huge amounts of water to grow our food. California is also the most populous state with maybe 40 million counting all the illegals that have flooded into it since the last census. They naturally use a lot of water. Yet... today, even with all the news about the drought and how serious it is and farmers having to destroy entire orchards of much needed and valuable food California allows far more fresh water to run into the ocean then it captures and uses for human consumption. California does not have a water shortage they have a intentional politically motivated misuse of water resources. But wait! It's getting worse and it is intentionally getting worse. Right now a number of the lakes in Northern California are over full so the water resource board is spilling off this excess water into the rivers and downstream into the ocean. Right this second as farmers are being denied water California is wasting water by the billions of gallons. In fact it would appear that at some of these lakes that are not overly full yet the spill of water is an intentional effort to make sure there is a continued drought (or at least apparent visible proof of drought) for political reasons. Oh, did I mention that California and Oregon have conspired to remove 5 dams on the Klamath river by a ploy that bypasses congress? Why? Well of course for all the far lefty reasons but also for a craftily worded statement about allowing the Indians their water rights. If you were to read between the lines what that means is the Indians (or at least those who create Indian policy) want to flush all this water to the ocean in some crazy attempt to make it all like it was in 1491 or something. That's right we are tearing down 5 electricity producing and irrigation producing dams so that the Indians can be granted water rights which they will use to flush all that water to the ocean. But no worries the Indians on the reservation are fed, taught, medically cared for and even given walking around money by we the tax payers so why would they want those water rights to grow food???

800 miles long. Does that mean they could not move the water from the North part of the state to the central valley? It would cost maybe 1/1000th of what the high speed rail is supposed to cost and 1/2000th of what the actual cost of the high speed rail will be. No one will use the high speed rail because even with heavy subsidies it will be too expensive for 99% of the people and the 1% don't travel by train.

Broken treaties were common, that is commonly broken by both sides. It is way past time to stop treating Indians like zoo exhibits. Place their lands into a corporate structure to be used/managed for the benefit of all the tribal members equally. End all discrimination/special treatment and tax exemptions and allow them to just be normal citizens. Let them create a tax structure for their cites/villages just like the rest of us do to pay for their schools and local infrastructure. Free the Indians from the last vestiges of the left wing racism/domination of them.

We could and should make huge improvements in our farming irrigation methods. Look to Israel who has made the deserts bloom with very limited water. Necessity was the mother for their invention(s). There is so much more that could be done not just in California but in every state.

Desalination is expensive but I read just today about a new filter that allows pure water to pass freely from a saltwater source. Time will tell but desalination may become economically practical soon.