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Odds and ends: the peripheral canal, hugging a Delta smelt, Tim Brick’s blog and incredible wildfire pictures

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 26, 2008 at 8:28 am

Really quick odds and ends this morning as I am on the road to Reno for the holiday:

Who Steinberg picks for key positions could determine fate of the peripheral canal, says the Sacramento Bee’s Swarm blog: Pavley? Wolk? Hancock? Check it out from The Swarm by clicking here.

Say it isn’t so, Sunne: Jon Mendelson of the Tracy Press says Sunne hasn’t learned the lesson: The underlying factor to the state’s water crunch — namely, that too many people and farms exist in an unsustainable fashion in places where water doesn’t naturally occur in abundance — will not be addressed by a Peripheral Canal. he writes. From the Second Thoughts blog - click here.

It’s hard to hug a Delta smelt, says a letter posted at the Madera Tribune’s Red Line blog: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you, it is said. It appears as though the state government is doing just that. The world’s economy is the most important problem and we can’t fix it as a whole, but we can help it locally. The state plan to cut water deliveries 15 percent, (not down 15 percent but down to 15 percent) of the amount requested annually. This just shows me that the state is either uninformed or unconcerned about the economy and agribusiness, and how they interrelate to each other. Read more from the Red Line blog by clicking here.

Check out Tim Brick’s blog over at the Obama-Biden website (guess there’s no question about Mr. Brick’s political alliance) by clicking here.

Check out the most incredible California wildfire pictures from the Boston Globe by clicking here.

Happy Thanksgiving from Aquafornia! Aquafornia will continue to be updated over the holiday weekend, so all you water news junkies can get your fill …. If you’re traveling this weekend, travel safe! Rumor is the CHP is out in full force, so take care.