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Water Cutback to So Cal Farmers eminent
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Water Cutback to So Cal Farmers eminent by YourEnchantedGardener .....
This story desscibes the proposed cutbacks of water that will mean 30% lless water to So Cal Farmers. I talked to Jim Bell about this. He does not believe we need to loss the Delta Smelt to have the water we need... His plan calls for desalinazation.
Date: 11/3/2007 10:52:23 PM ( 17 y ago)
8:46 PM
November 2, 07
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2007/07/23/news/02delta072307.txt
From this above Link:
SoCal Water Cutbacks Proposed as Part of Delta Solution
By ROB DAVIS Voice Staff Writer
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Monday, July 23, 2007 | While the region is coping with decreased water supplies from dry winters in the Sierra Nevada and Colorado Rockies, another factor is complicating the problem.
The state Department of Water Resources is proposing a year-long plan to reduce deliveries from the State Water Project, which sends Sierra Nevada snowmelt to San Diego. The snowmelt is a major source of San Diego's water.
The Metropolitan Water District, the wholesaler that delivers most of the region's water, says the state plan could cut Sierra Nevada supplies by 40 percent in an average year of precipitation. That would cut the district's overall supply by about 25 percent.
A spokesman for the San Diego County Water Authority, MWD's largest customer, declined comment, saying the authority was still evaluating the proposal's impact. The Los Angeles-based district says mandatory rationing is growing increasingly possible.
Cutbacks "could get fairly significant," said Roger Patterson, MWD's assistant general manager. "We're in a difficult time here."
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This story explains the efforts of environmentalists to save the Delta Smelt,
an endangered species in the Sacramento area.
The result will be a 30% cutback of water to Farmers in San Diego,
among other cutbacks.
I talked to Jim Bell, an old ally, who I also call the Mayor of the Enchatned Garden.
He does not see this as an either/proposition.
He's more extensive plan calls for So Cal water to come from reverse osmosis
using solar panels to desalinize water.
He sees a a plan to have rooftop gardens over 51 % of our parking structures.
He writes about these proposals in his online book here:
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