Calif. Water Shortage To Be Bad

[Cobrabill]

On the ranch here we have about a 1000 ft of pipe that feeds the main house,guest house.barns & so on.I've almost got it all replaced.The last thing i did was replace the line from the street to the "T" (300 ft run)that splits from the main house and the rest of the property.
So to verify no leaks, i switched over to the well, shut the valve off(input to the "T")and watched the meter.No movement!!Great- i got all the leaks.At that point i said,screw it and left the city water off.We get a water bill for 1700.00 saying that the meter stuck and this is a ESTIMATED bill based on past consumtion.
Now i get to go argue with the city a$$holes and explain what i did.And there have been articles in the paper saying the water dept. is crying the blues because people have been conserving and they aren't making enough money.Co-incidence?Har-dee,har-har-har.


Mike-Sam was the friggin' geatest.

[Wayne Maybury]

I visited the Hoover dam 6 weeks ago and the water level must have been close to 100' lower than normal. They had most of the turbines shut down to conserve what was there. They were only operating a few turbines to keep some flow downstream from the dam.

I have been told that California has been allowed to get much more water from the Colorado River over the years than they are supposed to get. With increased demand in Arizona and Colorado, there is now not that much extra water left for CA.

The level of the Great Lakes has been quite a bit below normal for years but we had a good amount of snow this winter so hopefully the levels will increase. The St. Lawrence River was so low last year that ships had to limit their draft or else run the risk of running aground.

I have also heard that there eventually could be a war in North Africa over the water in the Nile.

Sooner or later the human race is going to have to understand that the world population cannot continue to increase as it has done in the past century. Many of the world's problems can be traced to over population.

Wayne

[Ron61]

Wayne,

Headlines in the Redding Paper this morning. Group's Water To Fill Needs.

Water customers in 4 Shasta County service areas won't face fines this summer after all. The McConnell Foundation will sell them enough to supply them. Of course that is County owned and it is the County that has already cut water supplies to many places by 25%. The lake is very low and will be much lower, but the county has no say about that. Just seems odd that they have already cut the County supplies by 25%, but have plenty to sell them at a premium price. They will most likely go pump it out of the lake.

Ron