Our water main just blew - right under the garage slab. Fortunately we'd already bought a nice h2O pump for emergencies (earthquakes etc) and it worked great. We'll be w/out h2O 'till tomorrow . . . so - in order to fill the upstairs bathtubs with spare (toilet flushing water) water - we broke that bad boy out & fed the intake into our man made lake. YEA!! ..... then I hosed off the car - hosed down the patio & hosed off the dock - 'guilt freeeee'.... as almost all the h2O we 'borrowed' went right back where we borrowed it from. so what about it ! I might just break that bad boy out more frequently - so all the folks around Vegas can keep watering 1,000's of acres of golf club courses in the 100 degree heat - even as Lake Meed is being lowered to its critical level. (shaking head) .
How's it going Hill? I hijack your thread to post a link Most Of California Reported To Be In 'Extreme Drought' : The Two-Way : NPR Which is old news, basically, and climatologically unlikely to change until November when rain returns to much of the state. What I didn't like about the NPR piece was the water guys claiming lack of knowledge past the 100(ish) year window provided by stream-flow gauges. This is incorrect because tree rings provide 1000 years or more. It simply seems to be that no one is trying to bring those two data sources together. Yes, they are in the egghead scientific journals, but not in the policy arena where people and economies could be helped thereby. Also old news is that UCLA got hosed down. Sigh, aging infrastructure. Surely most of the water exited by way of LA's concrete-lined 'river' system, and that leads to my point. Is there simply no way that temporary impoundments could keep such flows out of the ocean? Because if that could be done (whether following a pipe burst or a big storm in the San Gabriels) you get a bunch of water that could be used for fire suppression or golf-course watering or whatever seems needful at the time.
It's a bad thing all around - From the nearly 100 yr old water mains - to water irrigation canals that run for 100's of miles which allows for a good 20% evaporation rate in the 100°F heat. But the attitude of most is that it can't really be a crisis until the kitchen spigot stops running. Then we'll look for someone (else) to blame. .
