California drought effects...

[Fozzer]

Some areas which I regularly visit during my daily FSX explorations of California and its various waterways...

Some dramatic before and after pictures showing the loss of water in the reservoirs, etc...>>>

Scroll the pictures side-to-side.

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-cali ... story.html

Certainly an eye-opener!

Paul... ...!

[pilotwin7]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUaltJizQ5o[/youtube]

"When A Town Runs Dry," directed by Joris Debeij, documents life in Stratford, a small town in California's Central Valley, where years of drought is threatening the livelihood of the community.

[ViperPilot]

My big question is...

"Where's all of the Water going?"

It amazes me how much Water the Downstream States tend to use in the course of a Calendar Year!

We are FINALLY close to proper Watershed Levels here in CO; you can thank the late Spring snow we've been getting.

Alan

[Fozzer]

More tales from Cal Central Valley....>>>>

https://stories.californiasunday.com/20 ... -fairmead/

Paul.

[Jetranger]

In the film, the fictional “Alto Vallejo Dam” is being built (in 1938) ostensibly to redirect water from the San Fernando Valley to LA, but in reality as a “con job” to create an artificial drought which will drive down land prices so that the dispossessed settlers’ land can be re-sold to secret investors “for peanuts”.

In history, the Los Angeles Aqueduct (Owens Valley aqueduct) was built (between 1908 and 1913) to supply water from the Owens Valley (about 175 miles away) to LA and did exactly that.

In the film, the fictional “Van Der Lip Dam” disaster is cited by Hollis Mulwray to explain his opposition to the proposed “Alto Vallejo Dam”.
The “Van Der Lip Dam” is a fictionalized Saint Francis Dam which was built (1924-1926) to supplement the LA Aqueduct’s Owens Valley water with additional water from about 40 miles away from LA.
There was no ambitious water project (dam or aqueduct) in the late 1930s paralleling the fictional “Alto Vallejo Dam” of the movie and conspiratorially driving farmers off their land.
The authentic historical echo, however, was that—a generation before—"Mullholland’s aqueduct" did enrich its promoters through insider land deals in the San Fernando Valley, which was thereafter readily supplied with water from the Owens Valley.

(The San Fernando Valley, incidentally, is mostly within the city limits of LA.) This coincided with another consequence of the aqueduct, the ruination of the Owens Valley settlers whose homesteads failed when much of their irrigation water was taken away.


Chinatown brought more public awareness to the land dealings and disputes over water rights, which arose while drawing Los Angeles' water supply from the Owens Valley in the 1910s

Margaret Leslie Davis, in her 1993 book Rivers in the Desert: "William Mulholland" and the Inventing of Los Angeles, says the sexually charged film is a metaphor for the "rape" of the Owens Valley and notes that it fictionalizes "Mulholland", while concealing the strong public support for Southern California's water projects.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqgCog3fRoo[/youtube]


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sci-EGA5S2w[/youtube]

[Fozzer]

Following up from Jet's post....

More details of the Water supply for Southern California: Owen's Valley, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles Valley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mulholland

William Mullholland's name is also associated with the Mullholland Highway, and Mullholland Drive, favoured by motorcyclists and motorists for high-speed runs through its scenic length!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulholland_Highway

Mullholland Drive...>>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulholland_Drive

Paul.... ...!

[Azframer]

One fact no one ever account for in California is the fact that the surface temperature of the Pacific Ocean has been rather cool despite all those out there yelling global warming. If the surface temps remain low you have no evaporation therefor no rain for the pineapple express to blow inland. Instead all you get is dry wind that makes matters worse.
Then you lay out that California's government is a complete disaster mismanaging water resources is their specialty over there. Then lay on top of that the attitude of many in Cali have the this pertains to you and not me attitude grasped by the movie star attitudes of some in that state.
They have natural resources seeping from the ground there naturally, oil being pushed through the surface naturally and the complain about drilling.
Here in Arizona we had a somewhat mild winter, we had a few really cold days with stretches of mild winter days. But here we are winding down May and I find myself tempted to build a fire at night still.
Yea we pump out Co2 in mass but remains at 0.04 percent to this day. When the earth warms the oceans release even more Co2, when it cools it starts to store more Co2.
But anyhow here is a little piece on the Pacific cooling.
http://www.livescience.com/49052-califo ... auses.html

Rick

[Fozzer]

I find it all makes fascinating reading for someone who lives in temperate zone England, but has spent the past 18 years observing the various history, geography, geology, flora and fauna conditions of the Pacific South West and adjoining States, with the aid of the various Flight Sims and the information available on the local daily news and the Internet.

http://kron4.com/

http://www.latimes.com/

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/

Never a dull moment in the Pacific South West!

Paul.... ...!

[ViperPilot]

More Water woes...

https://weather.com/news/news/lake-mead ... -reservoir

And, a very fascinating Website about the early days of Arizona Aviation (for you, Paul)...

http://dmairfield.com/

Alan