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[*] posted on 7-14-2022 at 08:42 AM


Under sink RO systems are cheap. Amazon has a lot of them.
Small systems are capable of 50 USG @day. I have had mine for years.
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[*] posted on 7-14-2022 at 08:49 AM


Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  
Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc  
the first stores for purified water in La Paz have closed - no water
water trucks (Pipas) no longer delivering in La Paz - no water

we are at the beginning of bad times


Is the problem due to mechanical failure in 1 well? Or is problem due to overdrafting of aquifer resulting in well running dry? According to first article, it is the former.

https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estados/se-agudiza-crisis-de-...

https://www.diarioelindependiente.mx/2022/07/inicia-cierre-d...

https://www.diarioelindependiente.mx/2022/07/a-punto-del-col...

[Edited on 7-14-2022 by mtgoat666]


This article doesn't mention the cause but the last paragraph does say that the Coca-Cola bottling plant has its own private well. Mexico's favorite drink is in good supply. So that's good news.........

https://www.diarioelindependiente.mx/2022/07/inicia-cierre-d...

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[*] posted on 7-14-2022 at 08:53 AM


Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  


Is the problem due to mechanical failure in 1 well? Or is problem due to overdrafting of aquifer resulting in well running dry? According to first article, it is the former.

https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estados/se-agudiza-crisis-de-...

https://www.diarioelindependiente.mx/2022/07/inicia-cierre-d...

https://www.diarioelindependiente.mx/2022/07/a-punto-del-col...

[Edited on 7-14-2022 by mtgoat666]


I have no knowledge of the cause(s)
whatever the water officials are publishing might or might not be true
the ones responsible tend to blame someone/something else
like all average politicians

fact is that parts of La Paz have no water
not intermittend - nada for weeks




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[*] posted on 7-14-2022 at 08:54 AM


Quote: Originally posted by SFandH  
Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  
Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc  
the first stores for purified water in La Paz have closed - no water
water trucks (Pipas) no longer delivering in La Paz - no water

we are at the beginning of bad times


Is the problem due to mechanical failure in 1 well? Or is problem due to overdrafting of aquifer resulting in well running dry? According to first article, it is the former.

https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estados/se-agudiza-crisis-de-...

https://www.diarioelindependiente.mx/2022/07/inicia-cierre-d...

https://www.diarioelindependiente.mx/2022/07/a-punto-del-col...

[Edited on 7-14-2022 by mtgoat666]


This article doesn't mention the cause but the last paragraph does say that the Coca-Cola bottling plant has its own private well. Mexico's favorite drink is in good supply. So that's good news.........

https://www.diarioelindependiente.mx/2022/07/inicia-cierre-d...

[Edited on 7-14-2022 by SFandH]


Article states only one well location and only certain neighborhoods are w/o water….

Any pacenos got some on the ground info on the matter?





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[*] posted on 7-14-2022 at 08:54 AM


Harald, are places that have private wells losing their ground water?

Campestre Maranatha has two or three wells supplying their needs, but they are just a few feet above sea level, so going deeper to reach more water is not an option without installing a treatment system.




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[*] posted on 7-14-2022 at 08:59 AM


for the first time in a dozen years our well can't keep up and im having water trucked in, ensenada corridor area:(



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[*] posted on 7-14-2022 at 09:03 AM


I recently read a report written in 2019 by scientists at a university in BC saying that the aquifer that supplies Ensenada 30% of its water is being drained at twice its recharge rate. The vineyards in Valle de Guadalupe, between Ensenada and Tecate, draw irrigation water from the same aquifer.

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"Official reports made by the Comisión Nacional del Agua (CONAGUA) [29] in 2018 estimated that the annual water balance values of the aquifer are currently in a deficit. At the date the report was published, the average annual recharge was 18.8 million m3. However, the groundwater volume of concessions for extraction was 36.92 million m3; therefore, there is a deficit of approximately 18.22 million m3."

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/8/1586/htm




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[*] posted on 7-14-2022 at 10:31 AM


Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  
Harald, are places that have private wells losing their ground water?

Campestre Maranatha has two or three wells supplying their needs, but they are just a few feet above sea level, so going deeper to reach more water is not an option without installing a treatment system.


I have heard that some of the wells have turned salty

that is also a complaint about the water delivered by the Pipa trucks - salty




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[*] posted on 7-14-2022 at 10:36 AM


Quote: Originally posted by SFandH  
I recently read a report written in 2019 by scientists at a university in BC saying that the aquifer that supplies Ensenada 30% of its water is being drained at twice its recharge rate. The vineyards in Valle de Guadalupe, between Ensenada and Tecate, draw irrigation water from the same aquifer.

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"Official reports made by the Comisión Nacional del Agua (CONAGUA) [29] in 2018 estimated that the annual water balance values of the aquifer are currently in a deficit. At the date the report was published, the average annual recharge was 18.8 million m3. However, the groundwater volume of concessions for extraction was 36.92 million m3; therefore, there is a deficit of approximately 18.22 million m3."

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/8/1586/htm




[Edited on 7-14-2022 by SFandH]


90% of the water in Baja (both states) goes to agriculture.
Those are established rights.
BIG money behind it.
They will not give up their water rights.

as always - less for the common folks.

Your condo/house in Baja may have been a bad idea

Cheers to all who laughed about Al Gore etc.
You are not changing reality by claiming it is a liberal hoax.

no need to bring up the palm tree again
some never learn




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[*] posted on 7-14-2022 at 11:01 AM
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[*] posted on 7-14-2022 at 11:35 AM


Yup, anybody that has a house anywhere in Baja needs a backup water supply. A tank connected to the house plumbing with a pump controlled by a pressure switch to keep the system pressurized is the best. When the water is flowing, fill up.

Tijuana has had planned conservation outages where different sections of the city lose water supply for 24 hours on different days. It's all planned out and well publicized.




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[*] posted on 7-15-2022 at 06:13 AM


Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc  
the first stores for purified water in La Paz have closed - no water
water trucks (Pipas) no longer delivering in La Paz - no water

we are at the beginning of bad times


Here is an article in BCS Noticias describing the closed purificadoras. It indeed sounds like a dire situation.




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[*] posted on 7-15-2022 at 07:08 AM


not looking good in La Paz

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The land can only support so much.
People and animals migrate to find new land when the land they are in can no longer sustain them.
Baja is 'almost an island' yet people keep moving to it from the mainland or the north.

Fortunately, hurricane season is upon us and the annual rains are coming (hopefully). To support this many people on a long, skinny peninsula, full of farms and now cities, reservoirs and dams need to be built or seawater desalinization plants. A pipeline across the gulf from a Sinaloa river could be another option... Or, the masses can move back to the mainland or the north... Options are there.





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Quote: Originally posted by David K  
The land can only support so much.
People and animals migrate to find new land when the land they are in can no longer sustain them.
Baja is 'almost an island' yet people keep moving to it from the mainland or the north.

Fortunately, hurricane season is upon us and the annual rains are coming (hopefully). To support this many people on a long, skinny peninsula, full of farms and now cities, reservoirs and dams need to be built or seawater desalinization plants. A pipeline across the gulf from a Sinaloa river could be another option... Or, the masses can move back to the mainland or the north... Options are there.



what a radical leftist view!

sounds like A Gore in his best years




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Well, no, Al Gore peddled an idea that humans can change the climate and the polar ice would vanish (and he pocketed millions). I heard one of Al's (many) mansions he bought, was on the beach! Very odd if you believe the sea was rising and going to flood the coastal cities.



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[*] posted on 7-15-2022 at 07:44 AM


Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc  
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
To support this many people on a long, skinny peninsula, full of farms and now cities, reservoirs and dams need to be built or seawater desalinization plants. A pipeline across the gulf from a Sinaloa river could be another option.



what a radical leftist view!

sounds like A Gore in his best years


Who's going to pay for all this? The Mexican government?

But, isn't that SOCIALISM????

And, how did the corporate farms secure most the water rights? No corrupt practices involved, I'm sure.

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[*] posted on 7-15-2022 at 07:47 AM


So what is the cause?
Did well run dry?
Or is it mechanical failure in well/pump system?





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Large worldwide human migration will be a component of our not to distant future.
Work, food and climate the motivation
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[*] posted on 7-15-2022 at 11:11 AM


Based on this article in Diario El Independiente, it looks like the water trucks are no longer on strike, but the purificadoras remain shuddered.



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