Delta
Story
From LA Times - Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012
Coalition response...Opposition to planned water system upgrades and ecosystem improvements
in the Delta puts the water supply for more than 25 million Californians at
risk. It also threatens huge swaths of farmland in the San Joaquin Valley
that is the source for much of California's fruit and vegetable crops during
certain times of the year.
Years of water uncertainty caused
by drought and environmental restrictions, as well as a doubling of
California's population from a time when much of our existing water system was
built, tells us that the time is right to invest in our future. As
President John F. Kennedy said at the groundbreaking for San Luis Reservoir
near Los Banos in 1962, "Nothing could be more disastrous for this
country than for the citizens of one part of the state to feel that everything
they have is theirs and that it should not be shared with the other citizens of
the state. That is the way to stand still."
Water rights for people in the
Delta, or anywhere else for that matter, cannot be impacted by new projects.
That's the law. Standing in the way of others who want to invest in
tomorrow's more efficient water supply system is contrary to what Kennedy told
us 50 years ago. And that surely is the way to stand still.
Rivers
Blog
By Monty Schmitt
From NRDC - Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012
Coalition response...One of the "tangible benefits" that farmers in the Friant
Division are still waiting for is a plan to return the water they relinquished
to increase flows down the river. These farmers were told that they would
receive replacement water but no announcement of a plan has been made. No
reference is made of the 2005 economic analysis conducted by Friant Water Users
which showed that thousands of farm worker jobs could be lost if future water
supplies are jeopardized. Of the 11,000 jobs that will be created, most of them
are related to construction and will be temporary. Many of the permanent jobs
will be government oversight or regulatory positions that depend on taxpayer
support.
WATER SUPPLY
Story
From Mountain Democrat - Friday, Oct. 5, 2012
Story
From Stockton Record - Friday, Oct. 5, 2012
Press release
From USBR - Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012
Story
From Central Valley Business Times - Thursday, Oct. 4,
2012
Story
From Bakersfield Californian - Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012
RIVERS
Press release
From USBR - Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012
DELTA
Story
From Stockton Record - Friday, Oct. 5, 2012
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