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More players surface in the shallow pond of California water

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on October 6, 2008 at 6:28 am

From the Visalia Times-Delta:

Nothing like a dry summer to bring new players into the enormously complex issue of providing more water for California’s thirsty farms, cities, waterways, industries, fish, wildlife and the environment.

Just when we thought we might identify all the players, and predict their positions and opinions, the picture has broadened. A group of farmers and water districts in Kern County has decided to take legal action in hopes of focusing attention on one piece of the state’s water puzzle.

The Coalition for a Sustainable Delta has brought a suit against at least three entities that regularly discharge into the fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. One of the group’s aims is to show that discharges such as warm water from power plants or sewer effluent from municipalities can cause more trouble for fish than the pumps that pull water out for use elsewhere.

Environmentalists and others are quick to blame the powerful pumps that suck water and incidentally some fish from the delta for many of the area’s woes. The pumps direct the water to urban and agricultural users over a wide area through the California Aqueduct and other conveyances.

The coalition plans to make the case with a legal exclamation point that the city of Stockton, San Joaquin County and one or more power plants on the delta’s shores are causing substantial harm.

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October 6, 2008 · Filed Under Other Delta Issues

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