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No water problem — it's a no-water problem
dwbat, I'm suggesting a team effort, using the best talent available; since you are the most knowledgeable about how to get information out of the relevant authorities, I nominate you for the job. bases = the plural of basis.— June 5, 2015 2:26 p.m.
San Diego long-timers will bear water conservation burden
It may refer to the elgs in your case . . . It's like the bachelors send in one guy to battle the stag, and while their horns are locked, the rest of 'em do the does.— June 5, 2015 2:16 p.m.
San Diego long-timers will bear water conservation burden
U rite it, Ill reed it.— June 5, 2015 2:13 p.m.
San Diego long-timers will bear water conservation burden
Ok, I won't chicken out just yet. But if the kitschen gets too hot, I may get out. In the beginning, all property was held in common (for an easy read on part of this counter-intuitive concept, see The gift; forms and functions of exchange in archaic societies, by Mauss, Marcel, and The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, by Lewis Hyde). It does take most people more than a bit of a stretch to get into this, and space is too limited here to adequately address the subject, but I will try . . . When bonds between individuals is great, value as well as money becomes held in common (more recently, in "joint tenancy"). As cooperative societies are taken over by by cultural division, the concept of common ownership declines or disappears and exchange takes over. If you were a good flint-knapper, for example, you might not have to hunt. And the hunters would not have to knapp as much. More napping time for both. As feasts became less moveable, and villages and cities became common, the one percent collected taxes for "protection." The need was real enough, however, as both need and desire combined in a time of increasing scarcity as Homo sap. became more and more successful. I take it that I need not point out the modern state of this development in its present, vastly exaggerated form. Money becomes concentrated--"it takes money to make money." A 'possum in the Okefenokee Swamp is smart enough to know where this has lead. And, presumably, where it is leading. It's swamp all the way down.— June 4, 2015 10:46 p.m.
No water problem — it's a no-water problem
If we're going to solve the water-supply issue here (and why not?), we're going to have to get good, verifiable information--indisputable information, in fact. For that, we'll have to depend upon the word and honor of others who collect, maintain, and analyze real, solid data. Because such data are inherently "squishy," we'll have to deal with estimated ranges, not single, firm figures. But we will have to evaluate the bases upon which those data are derived. We will have to rely on "best-case" and "worst-case" ranges, somewhere between which lies the truth. Picking the true "worst-case" (upper range or lower range, depending upon the kind of measurement involved) numbers for planning purposes; that gives us a safe, conservative fudge-factor, yet not an exaggerated one. Guesses, presumptions, and unverified, un-evaluated numbers have no place in any serious consideration of the issue. It's time to "get real." DISCIPLINED thinking. Alright, ready, set, go--give it your best shot. Take a shot at this for a start, and modify it as necessary, then proceed to a plan through the same process, allocating the work according to the time and talents available so that no one person has to make undue sacrifices. If the authorities will be forthcoming with solid stuff, it might be as easy as asking for it, but I wouldn't count on it. So let's all send some emails to the authorities (let's make a list and post links and other contact information) and move this blog from gossip to professional. It should be a very satisfying ride, and we might just save the state from collapse. Are we together on this?— June 4, 2015 9:36 p.m.
San Diego long-timers will bear water conservation burden
Oh, yeah. I cain't evun spel oikonomics.— June 4, 2015 6:12 p.m.
San Diego long-timers will bear water conservation burden
I occasionally operate on the theory that fact is funnier than fiction.— June 4, 2015 6:05 p.m.
No water problem — it's a no-water problem
For every surface acre in the Central Valley, the annual water loss is at least three feet, or more than 130,000 acre-feet, or close to a million gallons **per year**. I don't know how much of that loss would be recovered by covering canals, but it would be significant. I presume the geniuses at some Water Authority have calculated the net cost/benefit, but try and find out. Some kid in primary arithmetic could win a Noble Prize for figuring it out. I will send $100 via the Reader to the first grammar-school kid that figures it out and shows her or his work and sources and publishes it in the Reader. The ancient Persians knew this principle. They had underground reservoirs and canals, and even passive air-conditioning.— June 4, 2015 3:13 p.m.
No water problem — it's a no-water problem
The dirtier the water, the greater the cost and the lower the production.— June 4, 2015 2:43 p.m.
No golf course...how about a sand mine?
Marty: How about some links to sources? Thanks.— June 4, 2015 2:36 p.m.