Cadiz Project Doesn’t Hold Water

Apart from the apparent conflict of interest with Cadiz Inc. CEO Keith Brackpool being water policy advisor to Gov. Gray Davis, and Brackpool’s previous “greywater” dealings, haven’t we learned anything [Critics Raising Concerns About Cadiz Water Project,” May19]?

Just take everything written about the privatization of electricity in California and substitute the word “water.” Cadiz seeks “a foothold in the boom market for water in California.”

It is counterintuitive to get water from a desert.

Plunging a straw into the big gulp of an aquifer that supplies and spreads widely under mostly public land, including the Mojave National Preserve, via a well on a small private parcel in its midst also seems odd. This is not a permanent solution.

It would be wiser to seek a real long-term solution, given our projected population growth.

California has more than 800 miles of coastline, much of which is state land. Why not spend the money on developing desalination plants?

We can live without electricity, but we can’t live without water.

W.K. Grady

Los Angeles