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Commentary: Decisions on the Delta; Legislature working on much-needed plan

Posted by: Maven on September 13, 2009 at 7:04 am

From the Pasadena Star News, this commentary by Timothy Brick & Jeffrey Kightlinger:

” … About 30 percent of Southern California’s overall water supply comes across the Delta, delivered to the region via the State Water Project. For years this vital source has helped to sustain the Southland through the inevitable dry cycles. Our system depends on capturing adequate supplies in wet years and replenishing reservoirs and groundwater storage programs managed by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Three years of dry weather have dwindled the region’s water reserves, triggering the first calls for mandatory water conservation in 18 years.

Now, Delta problems threaten to leave much of the state in a perpetual shortage condition. When the dry cycle breaks, these new Delta water restrictions will prevent agencies up and down the state from gathering adequate reserves. Simply put, we’re living on borrowed time.

Fortunately, a comprehensive Delta solution is emerging. State and federal agencies, with the support of environmental groups and water districts, are devising a 50-year strategy of ecosystem and water system improvements. It is known as the Bay Delta Conservation Plan. …”

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September 13, 2009 · Filed Under Delta Issues

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One Response to “Commentary: Decisions on the Delta; Legislature working on much-needed plan”

  1. Tim McCabe on September 18th, 2009 8:27 pm

    Stop funding the peripheral and install a disalization plant in Los Angles

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