No water Warden is mad

aa battery · Apr 2, 2015

We aint got much water here in central CA. so im doing something about it. The wife was out back and told me it smelled bad what was i doing. Well i told her was killing the weeds. :laughing7:

She told me to stop urinating back there it smells. I think she is just jealous. :occasion14:

Goose-0 · Apr 3, 2015

AA, you're problems concerning a drought will be solved within the next 12 to 15 yrs. Somehow, it will be determined that the southwest will tap the Great Lakes for water. Although the 8 Great Lakes states have laws against doing this, some %$#@ judge will over rule those laws. My guess is that giant pipelines will be run from the southern tip of Lake Michigan (Chicago) to the southwest. (If I were a betting guy, I would give odds of 3-1 that this will happen.)
So you only have about 12 to 15 yrs to "kill" your weeds.

aa battery · Apr 4, 2015

Goose-0 said:
AA, you're problems concerning a drought will be solved within the next 12 to 15 yrs. Somehow, it will be determined that the southwest will tap the Great Lakes for water. Although the 8 Great Lakes states have laws against doing this, some %$#@ judge will over rule those laws. My guess is that giant pipelines will be run from the southern tip of Lake Michigan (Chicago) to the southwest. (If I were a betting guy, I would give odds of 3-1 that this will happen.)
So you only have about 12 to 15 yrs to "kill" your weeds.

interesting

stefen · Apr 5, 2015

Give her the "No Hands" rule...

Draw a line in the sand and see who can pee the farthest.... :laughing7:

Rawhide · Apr 5, 2015

My understanding is most cities now recycle toilet water by boiling them chemically treating human waste for drinking water so the weeds would be the least of my worrys.

G.I.B. · Apr 5, 2015

Switch to a better brand of beer. That domestic crap tastes bad going in, and smells worse going out.

Sidevalve45 · Apr 5, 2015

I hope something like that never happens up here. Think Aral Sea and what happened to it.

World of Change: Shrinking Aral Sea : Feature Articles

Sidevalve45

releventchair · Apr 5, 2015

Desalination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Goose-0 · Apr 5, 2015

Very, very interesting, thanks.

stefen · Apr 6, 2015

aa battery gets a charge out of .....

Oregon Viking · Apr 6, 2015

releventchair said:
Desalination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yeh, I understand it works great!

aa battery · Apr 6, 2015

yup wife aint mad any more

aa battery · Apr 6, 2015

stefen said:
aa battery gets a charge out of .....

right right

ConceptualizedNetherlandr · Apr 22, 2015

Goose-0 said:
AA, you're problems concerning a drought will be solved within the next 12 to 15 yrs. Somehow, it will be determined that the southwest will tap the Great Lakes for water. Although the 8 Great Lakes states have laws against doing this, some %$#@ judge will over rule those laws. My guess is that giant pipelines will be run from the southern tip of Lake Michigan (Chicago) to the southwest. (If I were a betting guy, I would give odds of 3-1 that this will happen.)
So you only have about 12 to 15 yrs to "kill" your weeds.

I'll take those odds. Say ...$100,000?

Consider: International agreements. Cost of pipeline - how big? Impact on shipping and all that other stuff in the great lakes?

I could see maybe capturing some of the flood waters from Ole Miss and seasonally replenishing the reservoirs a bit. We know that Lake Michigan already drains to the Miss system from Chicago (basically as a sewer), so the bet will not include that pre-existing flow system if Miss is tapped. Agreed?

aa battery · Apr 22, 2015

i drink beer from out of state so in a way im importing water

ConceptualizedNetherlandr · Apr 22, 2015

I thought you were in aa?

The watersheds are not about state lines, but rather topography.

Slingshot · Apr 22, 2015

Columbia River would be my guess. All that fresh water just pouring into the Pacific now could be piped south, and it's closer than the Great Lakes. Cheers!!

Goose-0 · Apr 23, 2015

Slingshot, you're right on that aspect. Last night on T V, I heard that there are some thoughts on tapping the Columbia River in the future with a cost of $30 Billion. With steel mills shutting down, imagine the steel production boost the mills will get if (when-?) this goes through.

kcm · Mar 12, 2016

To revive a somewhat older thread, I have done considerable research in the past concerning the water issues; not just in California, but throughout the world. There are actual, real-life things that can be done to minimize the problem, and some things that could erase the problem completely. ...And no, I'm not talking about taking a giant axe and splitting a fault line or two. Is ....better not say that! :icon_scratch:

Probably THE most promising solution with the current technology is desalination. Problem is there are too many nature-freaks that think it's wrong to send a strong saline solution back into the Pacific Ocean after taking good drinking water out of it. And they won't listen when you explain that the ocean waters used to be much more saline than they currently are. Right now the water is rather weak of saline.

Nope, I don't ever want to return to California. Too many nut-cases out there!! ...And they're expanding; coming soon to a nature near you!

The next best idea I've heard is of a product called the Slingshot. It's the dreamchild of the guy who invented that 2-wheeled scooter-thing. Can't remember his name offhand....do a search on "Slingshot" and "water" if you're interested. Funny, I don't hear anything about that anymore. ...But then, I don't listen, either! :laughing9:

Goose-0 · Mar 16, 2016

kcm, so you have 'selective hearing' eh? I'm always accused of hearing what I want and NOT hearing what I don't want to hear. Jeeze, let me decide (which I do).