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Blog commentary: On moving water & transbasin transfers

Posted by: Maven on January 30, 2010 at 6:54 am

John Fleck of the Inkstain blog pauses at the end of a week of remarkable water news to notice a common theme:

” … The more we engage in large scale movement of water out of its natural watersheds, the more trouble we seem to have.

That is certainly the case with this week’s biggest western water news, the decision by Nevada’s Supreme Court to invalidate the process of issuing permits for groundwater to fill Vegas’s big water pipe.

It also is at the heart of California’s debate over a new peripheral canal (or something like it), a conveyance to move water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. George Janczyn at GrokSurf explains the no-win dilemma at the heart of the issue: Southern California faces disaster if (when?) the delta collapses and the southland can no longer get the massive transbasin transfer of water it’s come to depend on: “When the breaking point for the delta is reached, it will be catastrophic for SoCal — and taking the long-term view, such a delta malfunction seems inevitable.” … “

Read the full text of this post from John Fleck at the Inkstain blog by clicking here.

January 30, 2010 · Filed Under Transfers

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