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Pay for it if you drink it, says editorial: Users should pay, but management benefits us all

Posted by: Maven on August 17, 2009 at 8:36 am

From Stockton’s Record, this editorial:

“The state is pushing forward with studies and on-the-ground surveys that indicate – or at least give the impression – that a peripheral canal is in our future.

The question is how to pay for such a canal or, for that matter, any other project to protect the estuary. The state is broke. We’ve passed bond after bond that must be paid back with ever increasing amounts of money from the state general fund. And the federal government is an unreliable tooth fairy at best.

But there is a way to get the money, a new study by the Public Policy Institute of California says. In a nutshell: He who benefits pays.

You want Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta water Southern California, buy it. By the thimble full. Same with you folks in the Bay Area and you farmers in the parched southern San Joaquin Valley. …”

Read more of this editorial from the Record by clicking here.

August 17, 2009 · Filed Under Infrastructure

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