The Enviros Have Sold California Down the River

The Enviros Have Sold California Down the River 

               Gov. Brown's historic announcement of 25% mandatory water cutbacks makes our failed water policy real for millions of Californians.

              

               We have been balancing the equation on the necks of farmers, farm workers and their communities. For years we have taken water from our farms to help the Delta Set and now they are saying the smelt may go extinct anyways.  Now this has hit home for the rest of California. Yes, I know we have had a few years of low rainfall. but that is kind of the point. There are wet years and there are dry years in California. We are foolish because we do not save water from the wet years for the dry years. We are foolish because paved over the largest river in Southern California so their rainfall runs out in to the ocean instead of recharging the ground water. Heck we don’t even save the water from the dry years. Do you remember that first big storm last December? There was flooding in Northern California. Then we let fifty thousand acre feet of water run out into the ocean. Who thought that was a good idea? 

               Now we will have to play this out. Things were so bad last year voters approved a $11 billion water bond. The Governor has fast forwarded the first $1Billion of that money. ( of course that  doesn't include an single drop of new water, but that's another story.) 

               25% water cutbacks will force city folks to re-thinks their water use. I think plumbers and plant nurseries will doing box office business. People are not going to let their property values collapse just because Sacramento can’t get things right.

Hopefully, when the dust settles from all of this we will end up with a more reliable water supply.