Water laundering in CA.. Stop the abuse. and don't let Corp push you around

[annm4peace]

Fredrick Douglass declared in his 1857 speech, "If there is no struggle there is no progress."..and."Power concedes nothing without a demand."



http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14120943?source=rss

A luxury housing development 250 miles south of its Delta water source is moving forward, even though its water supply relies on a 15-year-old deal that has never passed environmental muster.

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Critics say the Tejon Mountain Village project is the first of a number of planned subdivisions that would use provisions in the water deal to harden the demand for Delta water at a time when environmental regulations are reducing the amount of water that can be taken from Northern California.

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In May, the Times detailed how Kern County interests were able to sell Delta water they bought from the state back to taxpayers at a higher price. The exchanges were made possible by the fact that they controlled the Kern Water Bank, which was transferred from the state to Kern County interests by the Monterey Agreement.

The Tejon project is "the first large-scale beneficiary of these water agencies that have been creating a very complicated water-laundering scheme," Keats said.

[JDPriestly]

1. I favor a moratorium on housing development in all of

Southern California until a solution is found to the chronic water shortage.

I don't know what that solution might be -- maybe water desalination? But it is irresponsible to give out building permits for housing when there is not enough water for the people in the housing to live safely -- and that is where we are headed.

We in Los Angeles are carefully conserving water. But it is very, very difficult to watch housing being built when you know that water is so scarce.

[annm4peace]

2. Read the articles and see what is real and what is man made droughts

then call and email your legislatures. Big Developers and Corporate farms and counting on the people of being ignorant. They are using Fox News, Sean Hannity and of course celebrates like the Gov. Arnold.

check out articles by Dan Bacher.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/28/18633734.php

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/05/18605769.php

The Three Big Lies Behind the Peripheral Canal

by Dan Bacher

The proposal to build a peripheral canal around the California Delta, overwhelmingly defeated by the voters in 1982, has been resurrected many times since then by politicians trying to curry favor with corporate agribusiness. In June 2007 Governor Schwarzenegger unveiled a new water bond proposal for a peripheral canal and more dams – and has been relentlessly campaigning for it ever since.

The current incarnation of the canal, the "dual conveyance" backed by the Governor, Senator Diane Feinstein and Legislators from both sides of the political aisle, is cynically being touted to serve the “co-equal”goals of water supply and “ecosystem restoration."

However, a growing coalition of Delta farmers, recreational fishermen, commercial fishermen, Indian Tribes and environmental justice advocates are fighting this financial and environmental boondoggle because they believe it will only be used to export more water out of the Delta and destroy the ecosystem. The canal and dams are being pushed through the Governor's controversial Delta Vision and Bay Delta Conservation Plan processes, as well as through the Legislature. Opponents criticize the canal for a number of reasons, including its enormous cost and environmental destructiveness.