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Moving on from GMOs...... water

First, in my defense there is no fishable ice, its not hunting season and I can't ski until the weekend. I'm bored at work and I can't get myself to start saddle hunting thread. And you guys are the only ones that tolerate me; for now.

I had way too much fun reading everyone's comments in the GMO thread. So here is another one for you.

So I watched this movie the other day... Water & Power: A California Heist

First, if you have not watched this one, you must. What is and has gone on in California is just criminal. There is no way to spin this one in a positive light. We may actually be able to tie this to the GMO thread though because one has to wonder how they get all that shit to grow basically in a desert.

But the water problem is not limited to Cali. Water is the next oil. I can see us trucking the stuff around the country and the world at some point. He who can cost effectively convert sea water to fresh will be the next Bezos times a thousand.

Oh god, solar and wind. Don't even go there. Better yet, save that for next week :)

But did you watch it Pi? It's all about cali basically giving the water rights to Nestle (if I remember right it's been a few years since I watched it) and then leaving the water back at astonishing rates.

I've heard of it Pete, now I want to watch it. Water is definitely a vital resource, it sounds like a really interesting take on it. My brain quickly went to the documentary "What Lies Upstream" based on a river in West Virginia... But then seeing Hick's comment, I'm realizing that was a very different story being told, though about water use.

Thanks for the tip Pete.

Peterk, it that the one where they walked to the end of the river delta and it was all dried up for a couple miles, something about the Colorado river doesn't even make it that far anymore.

Notme, no, not the one. Much of this centers on the Resnik's. This guy was some millionaire looking to park a bunch of cash many years ago. He strikes a deal with the aid of a bunch of crooked politicians to control most of the water in California. It spirals out of control from there.

What really is interesting, and I am not sure if it is in the movie or I read it elsewhere, but Harvard University is involved now as well in this game. You know that uber liberal save the planet socialist college? They have been quietly buying up all the farmers going down the tubes. Why would Harvard invest in a bunch of dead farms? Maybe because they are humanitarians. Or maybe, just maybe they know have the rights to what may farther down below the surface and they will make a shitload of money.

Really good stuff. You will sit back and wonder how any politician representing the people would allow this to happen. Such a mystery. Why would they have ever done it? I did not dig into it deep enough but one has to wonder if Pelosi was one of the beneficiaries. She certainly has been in office long enough.

Yes Trump is most certainly the guy who is cutting back on moneyed interest and protecting the common good. That why he put someone who's family is one of the biggest investors in privatization of education at the head of DOE and they guy who tried to have the EPA removed as the head of the EPA.

Also I'm pretty sure that collecting billions is tariffs that are paid on consumer goods and giving a very large portion of it to farmers makes him a socialist.

sam

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