>be California
>build city in the middle of a huge desert
>literally have to steal water from other cities to even survive
>suddenly it doesn't rain (like a desert is supposed to)
>OH MAH GOD WE'RE IN A DROUGHT HELP US
>>78834432
the drought was caused by political failures. we're perfectly capable of having enough water.
Which large Californian city is in a desert?
>>78834788
I believe op thinks los angeles is in a desert but that's incorrect
>>78834432
t. farms
>>78834432
we haven't built a dam or lake for like 50 years, while allowing a fifth of Mexico to come on in.
our state is beyond retarded, beyond the pale of sjw and beyond saving.
it is a dead state. all you see living in it are flies and maggots living off the corpse.
need I remind you who Leeland Yee is.
>>78834432
Who /venturacounty/ here?
>>78834627
>The drought was caused by political failures.
K. Drought, by definition is the absence of rainfall you fucking simpleton.
LA isn't in a desert as well.
And political successes have been able to provide everyone in California with water during a period of sparse rainfall.
>Hating the most successful states.
>>78834432
>implying reckless agriculture isn't responsible
Gotta grow those almonds somehow, boys.
>>78835201
why are you so hostile
>he thinks Los Angeles is located in a desert
>>78835388
Because uneducated rednecks in the south come here and try to talk shit about my home state. Responding in kind.
>>78834432
It doesn't matter anyway because California has already become a colonial territory of Mexico. We should really just leave California on the other side of the wall instead of even trying to save that state.
>>78835102
/Santa Barbara/ here
been here your whole life or are you just here for college (CSUCI/VC/MC?)
>>78836575
>Its impossible for two races to live in relative harmony.
God, just look at all these Califags crawling out of the woodwork to defend their shit state.
>LA isn't a desert
OP never SAID LA was in a desert, you illiterate beaner. Remind me again, how did California City--the third largest city in your state--work out?
>m-muh farms use all da watah
Oh wow, your state economy relies on the cheap importation of a vital resource? Well that just changes everything, doesn't it?
>i-its just political failures guise, really!
Your state has been in an unnaturally wet phase for the past few centuries. It going dry now is not a political issue, but a simple consequence of geography and climate.
>>78836575
>>78835036
I wouldn't say your state is beyond saving. Just look at Arizona, they're fairly successful despite being a huge desert in the south. Don't give up and let the spics win. Remove burrito.
>>78834870
>>78835389
Near ocean doesn't mean not desert. It's still very dry
>>78836575
>the inland counties of sutter, madera and kern will have the largest percentage gains in population
you guys act like california is overflowing with mexicans, we are, but they have been and always will be contained in the central valley
a place where coastal californians don't give a fuck about
>>78836945
it is dry but certainly not a desert, Mediterranean sub tropic to be exact
>>78836575
You know: whenever I see this "horror graphics" burgers post, I'm jealous. Why? Imagine the hispanic percentage to be middle eastern and sub-sahara African muslims...
>>78836867
>crawling out of the woodwork
Were always here you dumb fuck. There's 30 million of us.
>OP never SAID LA was in a desert
Everybody knows when people refer to California having cities in the Desert they are referring to LA, stop being childish.
You are right about the farms, but not about the drought. We don't even have records for the past few centuries.
Northern California (not San Francisco) I'm talking VERY Northern California is great. Always cold and rainy, green mountains filled with great big redwood trees. You can't swim in the ocean though. You'll die. Not only because it's too cold but the waves are too strong.
>YOLO county
>>78837285
Conservatives like to hate on Mexicans, but statistically, they go to church more often then conservatives, have closer ties to family and community than conservatives and work more than conservatives.
also for you non californians, the drought has not effected anyone in LA at all, the only group of people who have been effected by the drought are the illegals working in agriculture
and you guys hate illegals, so shouldn't you be stoked for that?
>>78836575
>sutter/butte county
fuck off were full
>>78837742
uhhh excuse me I have tight restrictions on when I can water my plants now and it affects my quality of life
>>78836867
>California City
Only has a population of 14,000.
There's more people living in the tenderloin of San Francisco.
>>78837838
fucking where? My neighborhood has "tight" water restrictions and yet every lawn is green and I have a vegetable garden
you should try keeping a bucket in the shower
>>78834432
When the Cannabis vote passes this November were going to need even more water for our new industry explosion.
Sorry
>>78837515
And the chance of them snackbaring are wonderfully low aswell. - You still should deport your illegals though.
>>78836816
it is when they are violent bandit worshiping rape babies
Los Angeles created itself as a major city during a vote in 1905, when funds for a water system were enacted. Today, liberals are allowing the city to die by blocking desalination plants and infrastructure projects needed to deliver water to the nation's second-largest metropolis.
>By July 1905, the Times began to warn the voters of Los Angeles that the county would soon dry up unless they voted bonds for building the aqueduct. Artificial drought conditions were created when water was run into the sewers to decrease the supply in the reservoirs and residents were forbidden to water their lawns and gardens.
>On election day, the people of Los Angeles voted for $22.5 million worth of bonds to build an aqueduct from the Owens River.
>The opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct provided the city with four times as much water as it required, and the offer of water service became a powerful lure for neighboring communities.
>>78838250
you srs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Aqueduct
>>78836753
Were you roomates with Eliot Rogers?
>>78838233
Show me statistics on how many of them are violent bandit worshiping rape babies.
Singular examples are meaningless.
>>78838250
also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_desalination_plant
>>78838536
Yep. It was that aqueduct that succeeded in turning Los Angles into the international economic powerhouse it is today. Because they lack foresight, our government refuses to invest in any new infrastructure projects because its "too expensive" or "it might hurt the minnows"
>>78838869
there is the singular example of all of mexico, central America and south america
>>78836442
at least we have rain faggot
>>78838969
I wouldnt cite Carlsbad as an example of a successful infrastructure project. Due to environmental concerns (why do environmental concerns come up here, and not, for example, in the decision to build a multinational port?) that plant has overrun its budget by a factor of three or more. Parts of our government are trying to shut it down, citing global warming (?).
>San Diego Coastkeeper is suing the SDCWA over environmental concerns. On July 29, 2015 they argued in a hearing before Superior Court Judge Gregory Pollack that the Authority's long-term water plan (and specifically the Carlsbad desalination plant) violates the California Environmental Quality Act, specifically with respect to energy needs and the greenhouse gases associated with those.
>>78836442
How dat make u feel wite boi
>>78834432
>image.jpg
...who /831/ here?
>>78841991
/562/ here
>>78834870
La is in a desert because there is no local fresh water
>>78835036
Then leave I don't need negative nancys sucking up my water and space anyways
Hurr durr cuz da Mexicans are taking over. The motherfuckers never left its not like we final solutioned them after the war we just marginalized their societal worth. Most of the "immigrants" to California have strong family ties going back centuries here. It's a situation easterners don't understand and that's why white Californians aren't overly worried about Mexican populations. We grew up with as many garcias as we did smiths
>>78837340
>hurr everybody knows X
No. No, they don't. Maybe that's the common understanding in Commiefornia, but nowhere else.
>>78837879
California City is your third largest city. It's not your third most populated; it's just sprawling abandoned suburbs, because 99% of it is empty thanks to its being built in a motherfucking desert which, surprise, couldn't support a thriving metropolis without imported water.
>>78835201
CA native here
The drought not being over yet IS caused by political failures. The left refuses to sign off on desalination plants that could have ended the water shortage years ago. San Diego is the only city that has gotten it right so far by saying fuck Sacramento we're doing it anyway. If the left wasn't so useless we would no longer have a water shortage.
http://www.sciencealert.com/this-new-technology-converts-sea-water-into-drinking-water-in-minutes
>>78835201
Are you retarded? Google "salton sea".
>>78834432
There's hardly anyone to the east, household water use is barely 13%. Most water goes to industry and agriculture.
Not to mention the golf clubs and almond trees. We provide the world with almonds and they take so much fucking water.
>>78842148
If LA is in a desert then so is all of Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, since they have relatively the same whether.
Does pic related look like a desert to you?
Something like 80-85% of the water is used for agriculture if I'm remembering it right. So it's the farms, not the cities.
>>78840805
there's an 80% chance he isn't white Tbh
>>78844314
Not in California
>>78844072
True, this is not a desert.
>>78844072
Mother fucker there are mountains, snow pack, and rivers throughout that peninsula, but not in the south by Seville which is basically a desert. There are mountains and snow pack and rivers here in nor cal too but not in the south which is a desert.
>>78844408
I'm sorry
68%+ of being mexican or hispanic
>>78844786
>there are no mountains with snow in SOCal
http://www.onthesnow.com/southern-california/ski-resorts.html
>>78844242
I think that's an overestimation but even if its not how would you replace the food supplied by those farms? And the almond thing wont last forever the bottom will fall out due to overproduction and people will go bankrupt on the new orchards then back to dry land farming like oats and barley because the counties all have moratoriums on new wells being dug and those crops don't require a 3 year investment before yields
>>78845814
It doesnt matter. The solution is simple. If we need more water, we can get it. We literally have the technology. Voters need to sack up, bite the bullet, and fund it. Then environmentalists need to back off and let us finish a project in peace.
I am thankful I moved out of that shithole of a state after high school. Went to college and now work in based Texas. Grew up in San Jose and Fuck the bay area. The only time I would want to move to California again is if it split and northern California had less illegals and better firearm laws (hopefully San Francisco and Oakland and Berkley sink into the fucking ocean). My parents kind of understand why I don't want to move back but not fully. My wife wants to move back because we both have family there but I won't move to such an indebted, chucked state if I can help it.
>>78845527
Look you thick headed dolt there are no major rivers by you and even the map says in giant letters MOJAVE DESERT. So what if you found a tiny deposit of snow its like tits on a boar compared to the logistics needed to sake that thirst. People didn't build the great California aquaduct for shits and giggles.>>78846172 agreed
>>78838969
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aZi1RXe9kY
THATS SAN DIEGOS WATER
Coastal California is a lot different than living in Indio.
Hell in San Diego living 1 mile from the ocean is a lot different than 10 miles
>>78844786
> There are mountains and snow pack and rivers here in nor cal too but not in the south which is a desert.
Then those things in pic related must be sand dunes.
>>78835201
>LA isn't in a desert as well.
Santa Monica is not in a desert. Have you been to LA?
Sure go more inland and it's arid AF
>south is so overrun with beaners its indistinguishable from mexico
>north is overrun with super rich chinks, poo in loo programmers and liberal hipster yuppies.
>hot blonde california girls are a thing of the past, now its just bull dyke sjw feminists
>>78834432
>still produce more GDP than your shit state
>>78838969
desalination is expensive as fuck.
Enjoy your highest tax rates in the country going up even more when the gubmint starts building desalination plants to make sure all the beaner anchor babies can take hourlong showers
>>78847392
But where are the rivers? That little mountain ain't shit compared to Shasta, Lassen, the trinity alps, the coastal mountain range. You'd need three whole ranges of those mountains to produce the enough snow to make a river as big as the Sacramento River
>>78847572
It's all connected bro there's no separation between those population centers its a mega metropolis and that's the problem.
>>78834432
Northern California can't keep the lakes filled because they ship it all to Southern California to take care of all those greedy beaners.
>>7883751
https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=tTXILmKdrjo
Those are cuckservative talking points that have all been debunked.
>>78848280
We can afford it though cuz we aren't poor Canadians and over time our superetech will make it cheaper
>>78834432
California isn't a desert. It's semi-arid like Italy.
California doesn't steal water from other states. The Colorado river is in California and so are the Rockies.
The cities are only 10% of Californians water usage.
Wow, could you possibly be any more BTFO?
>>78848955
The vast majority of water usage is in northern and central CA friendo
>>78834432
This makes me want to reinstall Fallout 2
>>78850284
Sure, enjoy paying for your own drinking water.
And enjoy paying for the water of your hordes of mexican immigrants.
Might as well live in the third world at that point.
>>78850292
Are you retarded?
>Colorado, Rockies Cali
>my fucking sides dude Google earth yourself
>>78837340
I lived in California for 8 or 9 years.
At one poilnt I lived in Yucca Valley which is close to 29 palms and Palm Springs.
That is the desert.
Los Angeles County and Orange County are not deserts you dumb fucking niggers
>>78850899
*sierra nevada
And yes the Colorado river is the border between NV, AZ, and CA
In exchange for you blocking our river we get a portion of the water.
stay BTFO
>>78850616
Mexican immigrants pay for water too otherwise that shit gets turned off you ever live in town?
>>78837222
Before it was settled it was a desert
>>78851652
The Colorado is no where near l a though
>>78852370
Are you stupid?
>>78834432
>build city in the middle of a huge desert
Where? The only places like that I know of are Nevada and Arabia.
>>78834432
Inland Empire = Desert cities, not LA though
There are so many mexicans in California it turned into Mexico 2.0 ROFL
>>78843408
desalination plants don't really have a good large-scale payoff for the amount of energy they consume though
>>78834432
>le california desert maymay
you realize most of the water we "waste" goes to growing our produce right?
>california "stole" the south's ag
so why no take it back?
technically we are at a deficit with a drought and high land costs...
The real reason is the climate diversity, soil, low frost conditions, etc that make this state the ag superpower.
I think the California hate just goes a little too far when you are mad at us for growing food.
>>78852828
damn california looks great for /out/
>>78837222
>mediterranean sub tropic
>on the pacific
come on nigga like yeah they're similair biomes but dont just fucking copy paste the first fucking result you see from a search
>>78853091
Tell that to Australia
>>78834432
>literally have to steal water from other cities to even survive
It's bought, not stolen. Not our fault that farmers trying to grow shit in a desert can't afford the higher water bills that urban areas are willing to pay.
>>78853149
Cali is pretty fantastic m8
We have no water guize
831 reporting
>>78853108
Its just flyovers that listen to dadvice.
I get all the same shit when I go visit my family in Texas/Oklahoma
>hurr bet you never seen an alternator before californias dont work on cars ahyuck
>im a fucking mechanic
>this here is a farm ahyuck bet u never seen that
>I literally grew up on an avacado/alpaca farm
flyovers are dumbshits
>>78843408
Carlsbad is fucking retarded. Should have out a new nuke plant there and added on desalination + carbon capture. This state is full of moronic pussies.
>>78853391
ok I think I will
>>78845527
Mountain High? More like Mountain Break Your Fucking Tailbone On The Shitty "Snow"
>>78847318
no one lives in the majove desert you redding inbred. go smoke some more meth.
>>78852828
Cali is the third largest state in the union and very long and geographically diverse so there are many climates and deserts aren't the result of a specific climate cuz there are cold climates. Without sophisticated irrigation large swaths of the great California valley would be deserts.
>>78854527
Damn anon you better go inside and cool off I think that desert heat is getting to you.
>>78854653
No one lives in the desert. It's all farm land.
SF, LA, SD, Sacramento are not deserts.
>>78836575
>We should really just leave California on the other side of the wall instead of even trying to save that state.
And give up a huge chunk of the economy? No.
>>78855602
Lol millions of people live in thousands of towns in the central valley that aren't those four cities pull your head out of your asx and travel a bit.
>>78852370
I don't know about socal but the central valley wasn't. Plenty of wetlands and lush riparian zones all over until farmers decided they needed to fuck the environment for the sake of their corn fields.
>>78855602
And none of that farmland would be there without irrigation systems having delivered water to places where there was none before. You think people just came over the mountains to find square after square of perfectly dug canals as far as the eye could see? No it was like Egypt and the Nile there was a thin strip of naturally fertile ground surrounding the rivers and then nothing just hot open desert. There's a river called the Merced river which means mercy in Spanish because the first European explorers had traveled so far without finding water they almost died. Now that whole region is alive with agriculture with trees and cattle and tomatoes and sweet potatoes and cotton and corn, but all because of irrigation because without human manipulation nothing is there besides tumbleweeds the size of priuses and cacti
>>78835102
>Who /venturacounty/ here?
I was stationed there. Love the area, but dust in the crack of my ass everyday, best Spanish and Thai food, people are happy. now they got wild fires in the brush that hasn't burned for 100 years.
The Flying Spagetti Monster is not pleased. We must make a pasta offering to appease.
>>78856880
Yes and no plenty is rather subjective and every desert has oasis and watering holes but that doesn't make them not deserts. I used to live on a natural meadow in the central valley and it essentially an oasis in the desert. The nomadic Indians used it as a winter camp so every time we disced the soil we turned up stone grinding bowls and shit.
LMAOing on the Californias in this thread. You're all a bunch of pot-smoking morons. I bet you watch silicone valley and eat tacos and laugh about how much money you all make. Fuck you! What makes you any more relevant than the 50 other states in the US? Huh? What makes you so special? You hollywood, fake tan, fake smile, fake glasses, fake lives! Go drown in sand, losers. Well I'm gonna wipe the smile from your plastic farmer faces. We're gonna eject you from the Union so fast your almond filled fuckfaces will spin, you understand? You less than garbage, you are nothing.
I really hope they break Cuckifornia into two or more states (three imo). Building a wall perhaps and gassing them would be good too. Speaking of breaking up states New York Texas and Illinois look like some good subjects.
>>78856173
LA metro is half of CA's population on it's own. 90% of the population in on the coast and sacramento.
Use your brain a little.
God I hate Californians so much!
Smug cowards, the lot of them!
>>78858113
Pop of Cali is a little over 39 million people. 10% of 39 million is 3.9 million. There I used my brain a bit and looks like I was right all along
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_smelt?wprov=sfla1
>>78837515
All false.
