Water conservation

Great Pacific garbage patch.

 

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

 

Woah , that was trippy

 

1 min faster.

 

Private yachts too.

My buddy's 55ft Riviera has a desal unit that produces 100cf per day.
I use only 2-3hcf per month, and I shave in the shower.

 

55 Rivera Nice Australian made yacht. I work on a lot of them. Does his have the Cummins QSM?

 

Pair of Cats...
I had just bought the camera and 18mm (on a crop sensor) was the widest I had. Wish I had the 8mm fisheye when I took these....

 

Nice. C-18's VERY NICE...
Let him know to keep an eye on the Aftercooler tube adapters. They are a the weak link on the Cats. I have done a ton of them...

 

He loves it.
It's quicker than his old 22ft Whaler with the Yamaha 2-stroke. Amazing for a ship that size, especially after living with his 40ft Bayliner with the twin Hino 4-bangers for over 10 years. That thing was good for 15kt on a good day. We rarely ran it to Clemente because it was so slow.

You may have seen his boat(s)... he lives in HH down near Warner across from Sunset.

 

What the name of this vessel? I do a ton of yachts in H.H.

 

what climate change?

 

Not sure.
His Bayliner was the Wolfpack.
He sold that a few years ago for a Silverton, think it was a 42, then upgraded to the Riviera last summer. He's at the south end of the main channel near the tennis courts. He docks it backed-in, house has two 65ft slips.

 

Not climate change... political control over the supply.

California has always been sitting on a 3-year storage level.
10 or 15 years ago, I started noticing that the reservoir levels were dropping in the lake above I-5 near Los Banos. Water was being allowed to flow into the ocean, rather than being pumped into the reservoir, because of environmental concerns over the California Gnat-catcher.
Later, the bird became the non-issue and now the issue is the Delta Smelt.
Lake Folsom is pretty much empty now. Not because there is no water flowing into it, and not because too much is being used, but because Sacramento is ignoring federal laws regarding water management and allowing the water to flow into the ocean.

If you load up Google Earth and run the historical imagery slider on Lake Folsom, you will see that the level of the lake has constantly fluctuated (dramatic fluctuations) over the last 10+ years. While it is more empty now than ever, it was only a couple of years ago that it was full.

The same with Lake Mead... and now they are releasing water from the dams on the Colorado River in surges to push flooding to (obviously temporarily) restore some wetlands in the California Delta down in Mexico.

 

Boyd's not in Cali though

 

Ya, my comment was extremely oversimplified, but it IS a large part of the problem.
Mismanagement happens on both the supply and consumption side, and they work together with natural fluctuations to create larger problems.

I'm not a tinfoil hatter that would claim it is being done intentionally to control the water supply... I work with and know a lot of government workers.
Trust me... they are not that smart. It is a combination of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing, incompetent project management, as well as legislation and policy-making based on fear and ignorance.

We have guys in our Community Development department who still talk about "peak oil" even though that term has been all but forgotten by those who lived and breathed it 2 years ago, and they honestly believe that peak traffic in our city was in 2005 and it has been a steady decline ever since... based on traffic studies that were done during the height of the recession.
When they get current count information that is a "surprise" to them, they come to me and ask for verification. I'll pull up a graph from the system detectors on my comm server and confirm that, yes, there are 5,000 more cars per day on that road than you believe.
Meanwhile, we have a shitload of roads that used to be nice 4-lane roads knocked down to 2 lanes plus a suicide lane... and two bike lanes.... that are rarely used.
Yup... fuck over 15,000 people per day for 150 bicyclists.

 

Boulder has been at war with car transportation for years. Bike lanes everywhere that don't get used while congesting car traffic, and the City fabricates numbers like 10% of the population commutes to work on average. BS.

 

You know the best way for you to save water?

Don't live in a freaking desert.

 

When they did the "after" counts a year after the project was completed, they cheated.
They counted skateboarders, strollers, and kids on Big Wheels that were on the sidewalk as being "users of the bike lanes"
Of course, they counted bicycles whether they were in the lane, sidewalk, or one of the traffic lanes.

 

We walk quite a bit, mostly on streets with bike lanes, but surprise surprise more cyclists drive on the sidewalks and make us move aside instead of using the available bike lanes?

 

Yup.
And the wrong direction... and then they cry that people aren't looking out for them when one of them gets pegged by a driver.