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Column: Deceptive arguments are being made in California’s water wars

Posted by: Maven on March 13, 2010 at 2:34 pm

From the Los Angeles Times, this column by Michael Hiltzik:

“Who needs absinthe, vodka or even a six-pack of beer? Judging from the quality of our debate on natural resource policy, all it takes to addle the political mind in California is water.

We’re talking about the water that flows to us from the mountains and the rivers, via canal or aqueduct, irrigating our fields, maintaining our aquatic habitats, and sustaining daily life in the cities and suburbs.

There isn’t enough of it to be exploited with abandon as we’ve done in the past, and nothing we do will increase the raw volume we receive from nature.

“It’s increasingly apparent that there’s not enough water for everyone to do all the things they want,” says Peter H. Gleick, co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute, an Oakland-based environmental group, “especially as inefficiently as they’ve done in the past.” … “

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March 13, 2010 · Filed Under General Water Issues

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One Response to “Column: Deceptive arguments are being made in California’s water wars”

  1. WaterSource/WaterBank on March 14th, 2010 4:56 am

    “nothing we do will increase the raw volume we receive from nature.

    You can lead a California mule to water ( a new million acre feet/year), but you can’t make it drink … or even look !

    How boring these stupid water woe remarks have become.

    There is on average a million acre feet of non-tributary fresh water available EACH YEAR for development which will not damage the environment or the water rights of anyone. No entity at the pity parties has ever spent one second to verify … it is easier to all wring hands and do the bureau rain dance !

    WaterSourceWaterBank
    waterrdw@yahoo.com

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