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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (194266)	1/5/2016 8:25:23 PM
From: JimisJim	2 Recommendations Recommended By E_K_S isopatch Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206321

No easy answer on that one BCB... there has been capital spending in some areas, but not others... overall, there is significantly more storage for runoff from rain and/or snowpack than there was a few years ago, but it doesn't mean we have all the storage we could use... fwiw, Brown has been the cautious one on spending despite the surpluses of late, while the legislature would love to deliver a lot of spending pork to their districts -- Brown has kept a pretty tight lid on that... so far... or we wouldn't have had those surpluses, nor would we be building a nice "rainy day" fund... I keep trying to tell you that politics in this state is not black or white... we are far from a homogenous population regardless of the over-simplified political crap spouted on either "side" during election campaigns... there are 37 million people here and 37 million differences of opinion... running this state is like herding 37 million cats!

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (194266)	1/5/2016 8:26:40 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 206321

I understand your Cleveland suburb stores all of the rainwater runoff from your street gutters in a giant cistern. But what do you people do with all of this gutter water after you have it stored? It sounds to me as if the entire $187 billion Cleveland spent on this structure was entirely wasted.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (194266)	1/6/2016 12:21:18 AM
From: edward miller	3 Recommendations Recommended By Elroy Jetson Eric JimisJim Respond to of 206321

BCB, Since I drove to Sacramento for Christmas I can enlighten you a bit. Many of the major reservoirs show little obvious improvement, the most obvious driving from the PNW is Shasta, which is visible from I-5. Since you haven't been to the West Coast (as I recall was stated by you/others) you really have no sense of the magnitude of the water storage system. I am guessing that it will take 10 years of normal precipitation to fill them. I haven't seen other major reservoirs in person but I have read about and seen pictures of Oroville and Folsom, just north and east of Sacramento, so I know they are in worse shape than Shasta. I am not a big fan of Jerry Brown but he doesn't need to do anything new to capture the water. The system is there to do that work, but it will take a long time and lots of water to restore what was there, if it ever gets fully replenished. With more people on top of the potential agribusiness demand I think the future for city water is going to come from other sources like desalinization plants. Water in the West is seriously over-allocated. Just my 2 cents on the topic, as one who has lived in LA in the past. Edit: Need to add a comment on Carli F. She is full of it. Remember she is grandstanding in a futile attempt to be relevant in the Presidential Sweepstakes! Ed