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Marchers draw attention to lack of water

Posted by: Maven on April 12, 2009 at 7:35 am

From the Hanford Sentinel:

It’s bound to be a strange sight for speeding motorists: Hundreds or even thousands of people dressed in blue and walking alongside Interstate 5 on their way from Mendota to the San Luis Reservoir. That’s the vision organizers have for the March for Water, a four-day trek beginning Tuesday to protest the lack of irrigation water in the parched western half of the San Joaquin Valley.

Drought and environmental cutbacks in water deliveries from the Sacramento River Delta will terminate 60,000 ag jobs and lead to $1.6 billion in lost revenue in the coming months, according to a University of California, Davis, study.

The reason? Three years of below-average precipitation and a court ruling in 2007 that curtails pumping deliveries to many Westside growers in order to protect the endangered Delta smelt fish.

That has left virtually everybody in the ag industry angry and frustrated. And motivated to march.

Read more from the Hanford Sentinel by clicking here.

April 12, 2009 · Filed Under Agriculture, Drought, Weather & Snowpack

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One Response to “Marchers draw attention to lack of water”

  1. WaterSource on April 12th, 2009 10:01 am

    The California Mule should be at the head of the march / parade.

    The CA mule is good at braying, loves pity-parties, the wringing of hands and the singing of woe-is-us.

    You can lead this California Mule to water, but you can’t make it drink.

    The mule passes on even sniffing at a new non-tributary fresh water Source that could provide CA with a million acre feet ( 325,900,000,000 gallons) a year. The mule isn’t the least bit impressed that the new Source could be developed without damage to the environment or the water rights of anyone, anywhere. Even the promise that NO POWER would be required to deliver the water fails to get the mule’s attention. The CA mule balks at the legal accumulation to keep Lake Mead with 28.5 million AF reasonably FULL and generating 2000 megawatts of renewable energy …

    The CA Mule will like the long march, but don’t expect it to be interested in the investigation of a Source solution for CA ! WaterSource waterrdw@yahoo.com

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