One of the reasons that was given for the water reservoirs above the Los Angeles basin not being full was that the water was diverted so a potentially-manufactured minnow species can have well-lubricated sex.
The minnow in question is called Hypomesus transpacificus and is one of five species of Hypomesus that are distributed around the Pacific rim. Three of those species are on the west coast of North America and have zero overlap in their range. Their natural ranges touch but do not overlap. Very puzzling.
As a side-note, it was recently revealed that the Tellico Darter which stopped construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee was found to be a fraud. In an "aw-shucks moment" scientists determined in 2025 that the "Tellico Darter" was not actually a separate species but was rather a slightly different looking variant of common Stargazing Darter.
Got all that?
Your toilet doesn't flush, your dishwasher and your washing machine won't clean...
Your toilet doesn't flush and your dishwasher and your washing machine won't clean because California mandated that appliances use arbitrarily small amounts of water in order to conserve water. US manufacturers don't have the resources to develop and tool two separate lines of appliances, one for California and another for the other forty-nine and Canada.
So the reason your toilet doesn't flush, your dishes are gritty and your clothes stink isn't because California is burning. That is irrelevant to California legislators and regulators. Nope. It is because flush-toilets (that work), clean dishes and clean clothing are luxuries and must bow to the rights of minnows to have well-lubricated sex.
Just wait until they realize that all those forest fires have caused a shortage of the trees necessary to make toilet paper. ---ken
ReplyDeleteTHEY took it out, YOU can put it back
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisodium_phosphate
Restaurant quality sparkling glass, straight from the dishwasher.
Tested and approved,
A little East of Paris
Phosphate was the water treatment chemical that the Flint Water Treatment Plant manager refused to buy. Phosphate forms an insoluble complex with lead that stops intergranular corrosion.
DeleteBut he was smarter than the suppliers. He undoubtedly had a degree in Political SCIENCE!!! He knew phosphate was bad. He refused to buy it and add it to the water.
Really worked out for the Flint water system eh?
DeleteAnd speaking of shitters, there used to be a brand/product called American Standard. Woulditwere that all products would be manufactured as an American Standard that meets the needs of Americans, and offered zero products that meet the California water standards.
ReplyDeleteLet them rebuild Gomorrah with American luxuries, or none at all.
(((They))) want us out of rural areas, for (((Them))). "We" are useless eaters, wasting (((Their))) resources and uglifying the land. When the general population is down to 500 mil. they will be "happy". To get there, (((They))) will brainwash, burn, loot, financial crash, plandemic, drought, famine, starve, poison, lawfare, propagandize, legislate, police state us into the proper slave, service population. You don't have to cooperate.
ReplyDeleteMany moons ago I worked on a remodel/retrofit at a wastewater treatment plant in our nearby big town. One part of the job was rebuilding a clean-out pit and ramp for a (then) primary filtration tank. Think 5 story ~100' +/- diameter concrete structure filled with woven plastic bales about double the size of a square bale of hay.
ReplyDeleteThey had algae growing in them and the water was gravity filtered over them.
And snails, millions of snails.
If the plant had an "event" lots and lots of snails got killed and purged into the pit and were loaded out to somewhere.
When questioned what we were building my answer was "A snail saver for the seven striped sewer snail."
It didn't take long for an order came down from on high for me to shut up about the snails for fear of some enviro-nut getting the job put under a magnifying glass.
Neck
This article gave me pause for thought. How good is the water supply in the inhabited parts of the US? I find it hard to believe that cities like Las Vegas have a supply that is certain for the next years. I know we have reason to worry about it in Austria. Vienna has a supply piped from the mountains, a system installed in the 1870s and extended since then.
ReplyDeleteWhere I live outside the water supply is dependent on local pumping stations and underground sources. The water level has definitely sunk over the years and people with their own well have had to rebore them or abandon them. In the mean time there are restrictions on water use for irrigation and appliances are also regulated, now. Toilet tanks either have two buttons, for large and small flush, or the lever can be returned to zero during the flush to stop the process.
There are connections between the various parts of the water system, so we get some of the Vienna water pumped to us in summer.
We have a reasonable amount of rainfall here.
Krems an der Donau 535
St. Pölten 782
Wr. Neustadt 745
Mönichkirchen 1 306
Retz 474
Zwettl-Niederösterreich 636
Not sure if the table will appear correctly in the comments, but we are around 550 mm per year here. Not quite sure how you designate rainfall in the US.
As the figures show, it is not exactly desert here, but the aquifers are sinking, so we are taking more out than we should. I am aware that the local aquifers are supplied by water that falls further away, but the principle remains that they are not being replenished as fast as we consume them. Apparently the average water usage for a single person is around 130 litre/day (roughly 34 US gallons).
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0qlQsfyZQAQ/VafsiGrv1_I/AAAAAAAAhCM/Y4U7gWomO_Q/s1600/Annual%2Bprecipitation%2Bin%2BEurope.jpg is an image of the average annual precipitation in Europe.
DeleteIt is my perception that the plains of eastern Germany and Poland get their precipitation during the growing season so they can produce respectable yields. The central plains of Hungary are not so lucky.
If you own your roof then there are many plans for collecting rain-water via gutters and storing in tanks. That would be plenty for household use but not gardening.
Regenerative ag and permaculture are very big on capturing runoff and storing it in the soil, blocking wind that drives evaporation and dialing in plant populations so that it is in balance with the moisture that is available.
In the US, 500mm (20 inches) of precipitation per year is the dividing line between tall-grass and short-grass prairie. "Dry land" farming is a roll-of-the-dice below 500 mm. That number gets larger as you head south and smaller as you head north.
The old rule of thumb about a gallon of water a day minimum was from 1950's fallout shelter rules where you were trying to lay quietly in your bunk for two weeks and such. Eating canned foods that HAD water in them was calculated into the plan. Toilets were from emptied out supply barrels and such. NO Washing up of bodies or dishes.
ReplyDeleteI've found the bare minimum is 3 gallons per person to allow for cooking up food, a little helmet bathing every few days and drinking. That's misery level survival folks. I've lived it for a week and rapidly increased the water supply to 5 gallons (I'm still married so success).
Test everything before you have to live with it.
I wish I could still have well lubricated sex.
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