On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The biggest issue with water in California is supplying irrigation for > the farms in the Imperial and Central valleys, which supply a > substantial amount of food consumed in the United States. The water > isn't taken from Lake Mead, it is taken in part from the Colorado > River, which borders the Imperial Valley, and from the rainfall and > snow melt of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I would question whether > those north have any more rights to the water that those in the south, > it just gets to them first.
Do you know where the Colorado river is and how it runs into Lake Mead and gets distributed to Southern California? The North has Lake Tahoe and the runoff from the mountains. The south has Death valley and the Mohave desert. Not much mountain runoff. So they take from Lake Mead and Lake Tahoe. You should know living in the North they've been trying for decades to limit the supply to the South until they removed all the tropical gardens and replaced them with local vegetation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335579 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
