The LA Department of Water / Power came out and said it:
‘We got a shit load of snow this past winter, right?!’
‘There’s more than enough water for everyone this year, right?!‘
‘So why not take the extra melt, which could refresh the Owen’s Valley drastically low water table (see lake bed below [lake levels usually indicate a water table level, unless you're dammed.]), and bring it down to LA where it can be tossed on our impermeable surfaces to run into our artifical rivers and collect our heavy metals and meander on down to our ocean so’s it can be taken by the current and re-enter the hydrological cycle as fast as possible!’
Photo by DM Weber
What they don’t tell you is that the water table for California is basically an emergency reserve for the inevitable droughts we will have. When we take water that would have gone into the ground and put it back into the water cycle, everyone looses… [see climate change]
Continue reading ‘just a friendly reminder to conserve.’
