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NRDC Switchboard: MWD’s water conservation budget cuts – No news is good news

Posted by: Maven on May 13, 2010 at 7:53 am

From Ed Osann at the NRDC Switchboard blog:

“The event that doesn’t happen or the policy that doesn’t change seldom makes news. A plane crash is news, of course, but ten thousand planes landing safely is no story. So yesterday’s action by the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California won’t make the 10 o’clock news. But a significant vote took place nonetheless. The MWD Board reversed a staff recommendation and that of its own Budget & Finance Committee and directed that funding for water conservation programs NOT be cut in the 2010-11 budget. At least five board members, led by Gloria Gray from West Basin, spoke up objecting to cuts in the water conservation budget, and Fern Steiner from San Diego made the motion to put it back, which carried with 80% of the weighted vote.

The vote came against a backdrop of nearly a year’s worth of sniping at MWD’s regional conservation program. … “

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May 13, 2010 · Filed Under Southern California

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