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Thursday’s top of the scroll: Cadiz water deal was all wet the last time, says LA Times columnist

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on June 11, 2009 at 8:32 am

From Los Angeles Times Business columnist Michael Hiltzik:

People who say that nothing’s harder to get rid of than a bad penny must never have met Keith Brackpool.

The British-born promoter, who has spent the last dozen years pushing a scheme to pump water to Southern California from beneath 35,000 acres his Cadiz Inc. owns in the Mojave Desert, just won’t go away.

On the contrary, he continues to attract political sycophants happy to attest to his wisdom in the ways of water policy — while they accept campaign contributions and consulting fees from him and his company.

In the past his posse has included ex-Gov. Gray Davis and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Now he has added Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who last week publicly endorsed the scheme as “a path-breaking, new, sustainable groundwater conservation and storage project.”

The endorsement was embedded in an announcement Cadiz issued Friday, saying it executed letters of intent with four Southern California municipal water agencies to jointly investigate reviving the water scheme, which was rejected by the Metropolitan Water District seven years ago.

Read more of Hiltzik’s column from the LA Times Business section by clicking here.

June 11, 2009 · Filed Under International Water Issues

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