Water supply
Commentary
By Deanna Lynn Wulff
From Bilingual Weekly - Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Coalition response...The above commentary is a reflection of the personal nonobjective
viewpoints of the writer, which has been demonstrated in article after article.
The claim that HR 2578 could impact all Wild and Scenic Rivers is a complete
falsehood. It is highly doubtful that such a proposal would have been approved
in Congress, which is why the legislation was narrowly written to only affect
New Exchequer Dam on the Merced River. This proposal also reverses an unintended
encroachment of the Wild and Scenic Rivers designation on the Merced River into
already-defined Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) MID boundary
upstream of Lake McClure.
Factless statements such as "Many water
districts lose about 40 percent of their water just sending it down leaking
canals or decaying irrigation ditches" is an affront to the efficiency
levels already achieved by districts and their committed staff. Such an
accusation of 40 percent losses without attribution would never pass a high
school journalism class.
To further infer that Merced Irrigation
District experiences 100,000 acre-feet in water losses is fantasy. MID delivers
surface water to its customers and in doing so helps replenish the eastern
Merced County aquifer with passive recharge through unlined canals. Farmers and
the cities of Livingston, Atwater and Merced use water from the aquifer to grow
food and to meet the domestic water needs of people in each of their
jurisdictions.
This article serves no purpose other than to spread
falsehoods and innuendos in an attempt to stall a sensible project that has
bipartisan support in Congress and throughout the region.
WATER SUPPLY
Blog
By Eric L. Garner
From PublicCEO - Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Blog
From LA Times - Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Story
From Merced Sun-Star - Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Story
From Fresno Bee - Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Story
From Merced Sun-Star - Tuesday, June 26, 2012
From Modesto Bee - Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Column
By Brian Clark Howard
From National Geographic - Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Radio broadcast
From NPR - Tuesday, June 26, 2012
DELTA
Story
From KHTS-AM - Wednesday, June 27, 2012
FISHERIES
Letter
From Chico Enterprise-Record - Wednesday, June 27,
2012
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