Water supply
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From LA Times - Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012
Coalition response...Reality -- a place seemingly absent from this report -- tells us that
California receives far more water than it can use, at least for the
foreseeable future. Unlike the other western states, our supplies are
self-contained and generated almost entirely within our borders. A little bit
comes in from Oregon, but we don't use it much; and much more flows past us in
the Colorado River which we've chosen to tap into in a big way. But far more
water falls in the unpopulated forests and meadows that cover the top half of
the state and most of it flows into the ocean from the North Coast and through
the Golden Gate, unused.
Surely those huge volumes of
natural water supply would have to be counted into the equation if there is any
validity at all to the concept of a "water footprint."
But in fact, there is no validity
to the concept. The very notion of a "footprint" is borrowed from the
fallacious rhetoric of environmental extremism. It is intended to define a
negative impact. But what does the Pacific Institute count as part of our
footprint? Evapotranspiration!!! --- a natural process that is simply a
form of recycling that is essential for the survival of all life on the planet.
Even worse, only counted as bad is the evapotranspiration that occurs from
crops -- not at all from forests.
The point is that if we take a
realistic look, we will see instantly that the immeasurably vast quantities of
water that leave California as runoff or water vapor makes us a net exporter of
water by an immense degree. And that means we don't have to begin getting into
the silly business of trying to estimate how much water we import in apples
from Oregon vs. how much we ship out in lettuce from the Imperial Valley.
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