Trump: California Drought Doesn't Exist (1 Viewer)

[cstu]

Trump speech yesterday in Fresno:

“There is no drought. They turn the water out into the ocean.”

“We’re going to solve your water problem. You have a water problem that is so insane. It is so ridiculous. Where they’re taking the water and shoving it out to sea.”

“I said, oh, that’s too bad, is it a drought? “No, we have plenty of water” and I said well what’s wrong and they said well we shove it out to sea. And I said why? And nobody even knows why and the environmentalists don’t know why. Now they’re trying to protect a certain kind of three-inch fish. But no, no think of it. So nobody even knows why. And by the way the environmentalists don’t know why.”

From an article two years ago on this issue:

Government scientists say it's important to understand that the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, the state's two longest rivers, are the hub of the water supply for 3 million acres of farmland and 25 million residents.

At the same time, the two rivers hold out damaging salt from the briny Pacific Ocean. The rivers must continue to flow into the ocean or the delta's water will be spoiled for people, farms and wildlife.

Nobody disputes the need, but the storms in February and March caused the outflow to peak more than three times higher than it had been flowing at the time. Grober said the delta needed a good flushing to push out ocean salt from previous dry months. Pumping did not greatly increase.

It's ####ing pathetic people are voting for this guy to become President.

 

[avoiding injuries]

3 threads. 3. 

 

[Hov34]

3 threads. 3. 

Gotta distract from how ####ty a candidate Hillary is.  It's tough work.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

No he's totally right, look.

 

[Chaka]

How is this guy a finalist to be the most powerful man in the world?

Oh yeah, apparently lots of Americans saw Idiocracy and said "Hey, that looks like a good idea!"

 

[The General]

No he's totally right, look.

You shall ride into Valhalla, shiney and orange.

 

[McGarnicle]

The other day in ND he said he would end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.



Dodgers @ Mets is on.

 

[joffer]

Yeah but you know.....the wall and stuff.

 

[Dexter]

Another Trump Tread 

He's right there isn't a water problem. There's a distribution of resources problem. That's what happens when you put liberals in charge. They are wasteful and don't actually care about the environment.  

 

[McGarnicle]

Another Trump Tread 

He's right there isn't a water problem. There's a distribution of resources problem. That's what happens when you put liberals in charge. They are wasteful and don't actually care about the environment.  

Oh holy crap you're actually knowledgable on this, tell us more.

 

[ShamrockPride]

Another Trump Tread 

He's right there isn't a water problem. There's a distribution of resources problem. That's what happens when you put liberals in charge. They are wasteful and don't actually care about the environment.  

How would you prefer we distribute our finite and rapidly shrinking amount of freshwater?

 

[McGarnicle]

How would you prefer we distribute our finite and rapidly shrinking amount of freshwater?

Build a wall to keep the water from flowing to the oceans. River deltas are total losers, okay? Oh, you can't take a little salt? I put salt on my steak, it's tremendous. 

 

[Zigg]

How would you prefer we distribute our finite and rapidly shrinking amount of freshwater?

Drown the almonds?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Another Trump Tread 

He's right there isn't a water problem. There's a distribution of resources problem. That's what happens when you put liberals in charge. They are wasteful and don't actually care about the environment.  

Lol

 

[[scooter]]

We need to deregulate rain.

 

[Chaka]

Build a wall to keep the water from flowing to the oceans. River deltas are total losers, okay? Oh, you can't take a little salt? I put salt on my steak, it's tremendous. 

And make the tilapia pay for it!!!

 

[flapgreen]

 

[bueno]

The problem is that dumb people choose to live in places where there is no water.

 

[cstu]

The problem is that dumb people choose to live in places where there is no water.

No, only about 10% of the water supply goes to cities.  40% is used for agriculture and the other 50% is for environmental purposes.

And before you say anything, water to the sea isn't wasted.

As much water is used to grow alfalfa (with a value of only $1,500 per acre) as is used by cities.

Alfalfa uses about 18% of California irrigation water and produces 4% of California's farm-gate revenue, most of which is used as livestock feed.[22] In 2015, California exported one-fourth of its total alfalfa production of roughly 2 million tons. About one-third of that, around 700,000 tons, went to China, Japan took about the same amount and Saudi Arabia bought 5,000 tons. Alfalfa farmers pay about $70 an acre-foot, in Los Angeles that same amount of water is worth $1000 per acre-foot.[23] In 2012, California exported 575,000 tons of alfalfa to China, for $586 million

 

[flapgreen]

You really do know everything.  How can I attain all that? 

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

The problem is that dumb people choose to live in places where there is no water.

No

 

[SIDA!]

From an article two years ago on this issue:

It's ####ing pathetic people are voting for this guy to become President.

It's ####### pathetic that Chad Stuart failed to honor his debts on this forum.