Wasn't this issue portrayed as a fight over water by the growers? I'm surprised nothing was said about that in this article.EnsenadaDr - 2-6-2014 at 02:59 PM
That place is growing like a weed, it looks at least 30 businesses have sprouted up compared to a few years ago.wessongroup - 2-6-2014 at 03:16 PM
Speaking of "growing" ...
"California’s reservoirs are holding just 39 percent of their combined capacity, when typically they should be 64 percent full by this time in winter.
That has prompted the state to do something it’s never done before: At the end of January, officials cut to zero (pdf) the amount of water that local
authorities could draw from the series of reservoirs that supply 25 million Californians and 750,000 acres of farmland. Snowpack is at just 12 percent
of levels typical this time of year, leaving little hope that the reserves will be replenished soon."
This is NOT a localized issue ... the western states are not doing too good ... with water reductions on pulls from Colorado River too ...
Baja does get water from the "north" in many cases ... a difficult time for growers on both sides of the "border"
Hope they can hang on with the "permeant" plantings ... some think "dry" years make better wine
[Edited on 2-6-2014 by wessongroup]Whale-ista - 2-6-2014 at 05:16 PM
I thought I had heard that Tijuana has plans to send a lot of treated wastewater from San Antonio de los Buenos facility to Guadalupe Valley. anyone
else hear of that? Wine from treated sewage....
Used to be, If you drive by the treatment plants on Hwy 1, you could smell the discharge. Has that improved? They use that water for the golf courses.
Reclaimed/recycled water will become more prevalent/acceptable as dry conditions continue.
Right now they are skiing on treated sewage in Snow Bowl near Flagstaff.DENNIS - 2-6-2014 at 06:04 PM
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Originally posted by Whale-ista
Used to be, If you drive by the treatment plants on Hwy 1, you could smell the discharge. Has that improved? They use that water for the golf courses.
They were going to run that through Donald Trump's lobby to the ocean, but he bailed out.
Whatever it is, the forest of palm trees and other plants around that treatment plant couldn't look more healthy from the road, but we don't eat palm
trees, do we.Whale-ista - 2-6-2014 at 06:34 PM
I used to see hoses dipping into the open canal, draining water down the slopes to the corn growing below... and then see them selling elotes from
carts while waiting in line at the border.
This is 20 years ago. I think (hope) that has improved since they closed over the canal...
