> The population is growing much faster now than it was when more reservoirs were being built. California has grown ~40% (14.6 million) since 1980.
This at least makes sense on its face, though I was under the impression that the population wasn't using much of California's water consumption.
> The currently empty reservoirs show more are worthwhile.
This is total nonsense. By this argument, additional reservoirs would only stop being worthwhile if we never withdrew water at all. That's no better, and in fact much worse, than never building reservoirs in the first place.
This is total nonsense. By this argument, additional reservoirs would only stop being worthwhile if we never withdrew water at all. That's no better, and in fact much worse, than never building reservoirs in the first place.
That's really not what I'm saying. Additional reservoirs would only stop being worthwhile if we never withdrew more than 100% of water. I.e., if reservoirs are down to 0% capacity, we should have had more reservoirs.
This at least makes sense on its face, though I was under the impression that the population wasn't using much of California's water consumption.
> The currently empty reservoirs show more are worthwhile.
This is total nonsense. By this argument, additional reservoirs would only stop being worthwhile if we never withdrew water at all. That's no better, and in fact much worse, than never building reservoirs in the first place.