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Spouting Off blog: Let it rain

Posted by: Maven on August 6, 2009 at 6:50 am

From Mark Gold and the Spouting Off blog:

“State water power brokers continue to battle over “replumbing” the Delta in the name of “saving” the Chinook and the Delta smelt. They continue to quibble over language in yet another water bond when we haven’t even started spending the last one. But little has been done to make it easy to exploit our most logical source of water: rain.

One of the great qualities of rain is that no one has any rights to it until it hits an aquifer or a body of water. As such, agribusiness and ginormous water districts can’t fight over water rights as gravity takes it from the sky to your backyard.

Over the past few months, Heal the Bay has been meeting with Los Angeles County, the city of Los Angeles and Santa Monica on the issue of making it easier for residents to capture and use rainwater. After all, the region is desperate for new local water supplies. It also needs more stormwater pollution reduction measures. The State Water Recycling Policy also strongly encourages local entities to capture and use stormwater. The policy even includes a goal of 500,000 additional acre feet of stormwater use by 2020 and 1 million acre feet by 2030. …”

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August 6, 2009 · Filed Under General Water Issues

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