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This is not about the weather cycles. This is about environmental regulations, and process's that prohibit the development and construction of water impoundment's and infrastructure. It can take decades of mandated environmental studies, impact statements, and other government requirements and environmental group court challenges to get a project to the engineering stage. A 20 to 30 year time span for this planning and construction is not uncommon.
The ability to construct water infrastructure is there, but virtually every project will be challenged in court by environmental interests, that will effectively prevent the development of any new dams, or potable water projects.
These groups are then forced to look at such idiotic projects such as extracting water from the Willamette at Wilsonville, treating it and then putting it into the potable water distribution system. Never mind it is the storm, farm, industrial and street surface drainage for over 110 miles of heavily populated area. Not something I want to drink even if it is "treated".
There are hundreds of drainage's that could be impounded and developed for potable water in the Western US, but doing so is going to alter some level of natural process's, and that has became politically unacceptable in today's politically correct world. Better the chubs and suckers have water, than the people.
Such thinking will only put more pressure on existing infrastructure, that is woefully undersized for today's populations, and making it even more susceptible to climate variations such as these periodic drought seasons.
The ability to construct water infrastructure is there, but virtually every project will be challenged in court by environmental interests, that will effectively prevent the development of any new dams, or potable water projects.
These groups are then forced to look at such idiotic projects such as extracting water from the Willamette at Wilsonville, treating it and then putting it into the potable water distribution system. Never mind it is the storm, farm, industrial and street surface drainage for over 110 miles of heavily populated area. Not something I want to drink even if it is "treated".
There are hundreds of drainage's that could be impounded and developed for potable water in the Western US, but doing so is going to alter some level of natural process's, and that has became politically unacceptable in today's politically correct world. Better the chubs and suckers have water, than the people.
Such thinking will only put more pressure on existing infrastructure, that is woefully undersized for today's populations, and making it even more susceptible to climate variations such as these periodic drought seasons.