Water Supply
From: Steve Knell, Modesto Bee
The story "OID's fees for
services adjusted" (Page B1, July 3) contained a number of inflammatory
statements that need to be addressed, lest The Bee create more ill-informed
readers.
It may come as a surprise, but
all water in California is "free." You just need to pay for the
infrastructure, and the operations and maintenance of the hardware used to get
water to the farm gate. That cost is not cheap. In the Oakdale Irrigation
District, it is $60 per acre-foot of delivered water.
Drought
From: Theopolis Waters,
Reuters
The cost to produce a BLT,
America's favorite summer sandwich, hit a record high of $1.65 in May and will
continue to take a bigger bite out of wallets in the coming months, given a pig
virus that has ramped up bacon prices and drought-stricken salad crops in
California.
From: Staff, New York Times
California is in the third year
of its worst drought in decades. But you wouldn't know it by looking at how
much water the state's residents and businesses are using. According to a
recent state survey, Californians cut the amount of water they used in the
first five months of the year by just 5 percent, far short of the 20 percent
reduction Gov. Jerry Brown called for in January. In some parts of the state,
like the San Diego area, water use has actually increased from 2013.
From: J. Lund, J. Mount, E.
Hanak, U.C. Davis Center for Watershed Sciences' California WaterBlog
As the effects of the drought
worsen, two persistent water myths are complicating the search for solutions.
One is that environmental regulation is causing California's water scarcity.
The other is that conservation alone can bring us into balance. Each myth has
different advocates. But both hinder the development of effective policies to
manage one of the state's most important natural resources.
From: Jessica Calefati, San
Jose Mercury News
Few Californians listened earlier
this year when Gov. Jerry Brown begged them to conserve water. So now, with no
end to the extreme dry weather in sight, state officials are poised to slap
water wasters with unprecedented fines of up to $500 a day.
Regulations
From: Chris Adams, McClatchy
DC
A proposal that federal officials
said was intended to simplify federal water laws has instead been interpreted
to do the opposite - and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is scrambling
to defend itself to agriculture and other industries.
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