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California's big gulp
What should California do to solve its water crisis? Discuss round one of this week's Dust-Up.
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What for-profit water companies do is offer the price that they calculate will maximize their profit.
Water is getting scarce, so they will raise prices.
2. Enforcement of SB 610 to "show me the water" has been ineffective to me as a whole sale water provider planner. For-profit water companies resist my calls for water conservation enforcement and meaningful tier pricing. They also recook their UWMP projections to accomodate developers new water needs whenever I challenge their Water Supply Assesments (SB 610) for their project buildout. I feel powerless at doing my job: water supply planning. I need more authority, funding, and public education & involvement to overcome private special interests! Thanks Snow & McIntyre for your article.
3. Enforcement of SB 610 to "show me the water" has been ineffective to me as a whole sale water provider planner. For-profit water companies resist my calls for water conservation enforcement and meaningful tier pricing. They also recook their UWMP projections to accomodate developers new water needs whenever I challenge their Water Supply Assesments (SB 610) for their project buildout. I feel powerless at doing my job: water supply planning. I need more authority, funding, and public education & involvement to overcome private special interests! Thanks Snow & McIntyre for your article.
4. Ms. McIntyre is now a prophetess--the great, 'I told you so.' Honest scientists will tell you that we don't know what's causing the decline in Delta smelt. The "primary cause of the problem" is not clear. Unfortunately, science in California died many years ago when advocates started demanding what they "knew" was right in the absence of real data, and saying things like, "the signs of disaster were plain to see if one just took the time to look." Don't bother me with facts, I know what I believe? I can feel it.
5. Lester Snow is wrong. There is a silver bullet. A legislative package that combines repricing of California's agricultural water along with a loans for farmers to convert to drip irrigation will take care of California's water needs for the next fifty years. 80% of all of California's water is used by agriculture to grow the world's three most water demanding crops, alfalfa, rice and cotton. 20% of all of California's water is used to grow alfalfa, a crop with such minor economic value that it's value is a rounding error in the state's economic total.
6. Half a million acres of farmland in the Western San Joaquin Valley contain elevated levels of selenium and other trace elements and should be idled. Irrigation of this land produces a toxic drainage which killed the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge a quarter of a century ago and continues to degrade drinking water quality in the lower San Joaquin River. Idling this marginal, akalki farmland would free up 1.5 million acre-feet of water, enough to meet the annual needs of more than 10 million urban users, or farming needs on more apropriate soils elsewhere. Lloyd Carter
7. The Westlands Water District and the San Joaquin Valley oligarchy of corporate farmers need to start paying market share for the water that they have been getting for next to nothing for 75 years. Re-read Cadillac Desert, and STOP corporate welfare!
8. Ms. McIntyre is disingenuous. PCL is quick to support billions of dollars in bond debt if it is used to purchase open space -- so why not support bonds to build necessary infrastructure? We've obligated our citizens with more than enough open space and water quality bonds -- it's time to let us choose whether we want to pay for the new water infrastructure we so desperately need. Why is PCL so afraid to put this to a democratic vote of the people?
9. When is everyone going to start factoring population growth into our future water needs? Family planning should be a big part of the solution.
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Submitted by: Michael Ejercito
2. Enforcement of SB 610 to "show me the water" has been ineffective to me as a whole sale water provider planner. For-profit water companies resist my calls for water conservation enforcement and meaningful tier pricing. They also recook their UWMP projections to accomodate developers new water needs whenever I challenge their Water Supply Assesments (SB 610) for their project buildout. I feel powerless at doing my job: water supply planning. I need more authority, funding, and public education & involvement to overcome private special interests! Thanks Snow & McIntyre for your article.
Submitted by: Wholesale Waterplanner
3. Enforcement of SB 610 to "show me the water" has been ineffective to me as a whole sale water provider planner. For-profit water companies resist my calls for water conservation enforcement and meaningful tier pricing. They also recook their UWMP projections to accomodate developers new water needs whenever I challenge their Water Supply Assesments (SB 610) for their project buildout. I feel powerless at doing my job: water supply planning. I need more authority, funding, and public education & involvement to overcome private special interests! Thanks Snow & McIntyre for your article.
Submitted by: Wholesale Waterplanner
4. Ms. McIntyre is now a prophetess--the great, 'I told you so.' Honest scientists will tell you that we don't know what's causing the decline in Delta smelt. The "primary cause of the problem" is not clear. Unfortunately, science in California died many years ago when advocates started demanding what they "knew" was right in the absence of real data, and saying things like, "the signs of disaster were plain to see if one just took the time to look." Don't bother me with facts, I know what I believe? I can feel it.
Submitted by: Mark Reynolds
5. Lester Snow is wrong. There is a silver bullet. A legislative package that combines repricing of California's agricultural water along with a loans for farmers to convert to drip irrigation will take care of California's water needs for the next fifty years. 80% of all of California's water is used by agriculture to grow the world's three most water demanding crops, alfalfa, rice and cotton. 20% of all of California's water is used to grow alfalfa, a crop with such minor economic value that it's value is a rounding error in the state's economic total.
Submitted by: James W. Taylor
6. Half a million acres of farmland in the Western San Joaquin Valley contain elevated levels of selenium and other trace elements and should be idled. Irrigation of this land produces a toxic drainage which killed the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge a quarter of a century ago and continues to degrade drinking water quality in the lower San Joaquin River. Idling this marginal, akalki farmland would free up 1.5 million acre-feet of water, enough to meet the annual needs of more than 10 million urban users, or farming needs on more apropriate soils elsewhere. Lloyd Carter
Submitted by: Lloyd G. Carter
7. The Westlands Water District and the San Joaquin Valley oligarchy of corporate farmers need to start paying market share for the water that they have been getting for next to nothing for 75 years. Re-read Cadillac Desert, and STOP corporate welfare!
Submitted by: Adam
8. Ms. McIntyre is disingenuous. PCL is quick to support billions of dollars in bond debt if it is used to purchase open space -- so why not support bonds to build necessary infrastructure? We've obligated our citizens with more than enough open space and water quality bonds -- it's time to let us choose whether we want to pay for the new water infrastructure we so desperately need. Why is PCL so afraid to put this to a democratic vote of the people?
Submitted by: Laer Pearce
9. When is everyone going to start factoring population growth into our future water needs? Family planning should be a big part of the solution.
Submitted by: Robert Caughlan
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