California Water Watch: Planning California’s Water Future
Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee today has As population, water demand grow, the supply is less certain.
Mark Twain may or may not have actually said that “whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over,” depending on which historic authority one believes, but it was an accurate description of 19th-century California – a time and a place with which he was intimately familiar.
Southern California ranchers and Northern California gold miners battled over water rights constantly because of the state’s peculiar hydrology – and while the identities and motives of contestants have evolved, their legal, political and economic struggles are shaping 21st-century California as well.
Then go and check out what the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is doing in planning California’s future……. all below the political radar.
The California Department of Water Resources is here.
Flap is glad that Governor Schwarzenegger is placing a priority in planning California’s Water future, especially after the neglect of the Gray Davis years.
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