Water Supply
From: Myron Gomes, Sacramento
Bee
Re "Delta details unveiled -
in 34,000 pages" (Page A1, Dec. 10): So we've got this pork barrel Delta
project that will allow Gov. Jerry Brown to spend more than $25 billion to
supposedly protect our future water supplies. Yet, the same day's paper informs
us that a multicountry Dead Sea/Red Sea desalination project, costing just $500
million, will solve a drinking water shortage in that area. Why aren't we
pursuing desalination in California? Even if just for agricultural needs. It
seems like it could be a bargain and leave our terra firma alone."
From: H. David Knepshield,
Sacramento Bee
Re "Red Sea project will
boost Dead Sea" (Page A6, Dec. 10): This story about building a
desalination plant in the Middle East says the cost is $500 million and that
the plant will produce millions of gallons of fresh water. Why does California
need to build Delta tunnels costing about $15 billion to move water from
Northern California to Southern California, when we could build more than 28
desalination plants there for the same cost? It seems to me that desalination
plants will eventually need to be built, simply because of the uncertainty and
randomness of rainfall. Besides, moving water through tunnels and canals and
pumps is so last century.
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Staff, Modesto Bee
Jerry Meral announced his
retirement Friday. In a career at the Department of Water Resources and as
deputy director of the California Natural Resources Agency, Meral championed
many projects, but his latest will likely define his legacy. Meral is
considered one of the primary architects of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan,
just as he was a key figure in formulating the peripheral canal in the late
1980s. Now, as then, a lot of people are refusing to buy into his plan to send
a vast portion of the Sacramento River's flow directly south via two tunnels to
water-craving fields in the South Valley and thirsty cities beyond.
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