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DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:45 am
by Anonymizer
DWP wants to pump more water from Owens Valley
They destroyed a lake by pumping water out of Owens Valley and now they want more!
:curse:
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power wants to pump more water from the Owens Valley this year, and DWP did not come up with pumping plans for Big Pine and Aberdeen based on groundwater levels as Inyo County had asked. The good news this year - lots of run-off. DWP says it's 150% of the long term average. In fact, Los Angeles will take care of its own water supply this year largely with Eastern Sierra water. DWP's operations plan says 71% of this year's water supply for the City of LA comes from right here. 17% from Metropolitan Water District purchases and 10% from LA groundwater. While LADWP will lean heavily on Inyo-Mono water, their operations plan has made no effort to fulfill Inyo's request last year to develop a special pumping plan for Aberdeen and Big Pine that would use depth to water as a basis for management. Amazingly, DWP uses a complex formula of soil moisture and other factors to decide when to pump and when to stop.

LINK: http://news.sierrawave.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4444:dwp-wants-to-pump-more-water-from-owens-valley

Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:47 pm
by Anonymizer
Bear Grylls Drinks Own Piss
If it's good enough for Bear, then it's good enough for LA! :tongue:

Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 4:20 pm
by Anonymizer
OK mrfish that was just too funny of a response. got to love old Bear

Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:34 am
by Anonymizer
mrfish wrote:Bear Grylls Drinks Own Piss
If it's good enough for Bear, then it's good enough for LA! :tongue:

Damn Right! Those jerks down in LA can drink piss for all I care. They've devastated the environment in Owens Valley, maybe they should put more effort into desalination or something that doesn't devastate the environment in entirely different counties!
:soap:

Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:50 am
by Anonymizer
FYI: Is It Ever OK To Drink Your Own Urine?
Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy, which in ancient Ayurvedic practice meant imbibing urine in the morning, mid stream; Proverbs 5:15 is thought to be in support of the act (“Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well”); and J.D. Salinger famously sipped his own, as did the former prime minister of India, Morarji Desai, who even appeared on 60 Minutes to defend his habit.

Still, drinking your urine has no known health benefit. Urine is at least 95 percent water, but the remaining 5 percent is not very good for you—that’s why your body is getting rid of it. It carries excess electrolytes, such as chloride, sodium and potassium (urine also carries small traces of excess toxins in the form of acids from your kidney, but you’d need to drink a lot for that to do damage). Electrolytes enable some of our cells to conduct electricity, but too much sodium draws water out of our cells, dehydrating us, and too much potassium leads to a heart attack.

Drinking urine for survival is even more harmful, since dehydration makes it less dilute and all those electrolytes and acids appear in greater concentration, making a bad situation worse. Also, it’s gross.

It sounds like someone disagrees with the Bear's philosophy about drinking urine in survival situations. Be that as it may, it would still be far preferable for the people of Los Angeles to drink their own urine than to drain water from the Owens Valley!
:pacman:
LINK: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-03/fyi-it-ever-ok-drink-your-own-urine

Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:48 am
by Anonymizer
cactuspete wrote:Urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless.

What is wrong with people?!! :smack:
That's just plain disgusting and dumb at the same time!

Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:49 pm
by Anonymizer
Drink Urine to Survive and Whiten your Teeth?
Another guy with an opinion about drinking pee! :up2:

Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:27 pm
by Anonymizer
LA the envy of the world.
:eek2: :eek2: :eek2:

Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:45 am
by Anonymizer
Lots of people in Nevada share the concerns of Owens Valley. Also I didn't know the blowing dust was such a health hazard. Not being from the area I never even thought about how cities dry up the water in their surrounding areas.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/ju ... at-expect/
• The latest estimate of the pipeline cost is $3.5 billion, eliciting the quip from Ely Daily Times Editor Kent Harper that it would be cheaper for Las Vegans to bathe in Dom Perignon than Great Basin ground water.


• If the Great Basin pipeline project fails, and drought persists on the Colorado River, Las Vegas’ decision to keep building and dare the Department of Interior to let it run dry will probably pay off. Few think that Uncle Sam would cut off a city.

But Las Vegas would have to learn to live within its means — maybe by slowing growth — while searching for alternate sources: building a desalination plant in California or Mexico then exchanging it for more Colorado River water and pursuing more aggressive indoor conservation.

Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:49 am
by Anonymizer
I just went out and made this video of the Owens valley while my breakfast was cooking... JUST KIDDING!

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:55 am
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:58 am
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