Weekly 3: Water Industry
The media-scouring folks here at Laer Pearce & Associates have compiled the three biggest California water stories of the week – well, the one really, really big story and a couple of interesting also-rans. You’ll find the Big Three here every Thursday, or you can follow LPAWater on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news and analysis. You can also sign up for our e-blasts here.
1. The 2012 Water Bond
All the forces that came together to cajole, arm-twist and horse-trade the historic Nov. 2009 water package through a reluctant legislature apparently were nowhere to be found when it came to contributing the dollars needed to run a successful campaign – if a successful campaign for an $11 billion bond could be had at any price during the state’s current fiscal melt-down. So now it’s the 2012 water bond, which means two more years to build support … and two more years to tear it down. We hope the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta won’t collapse while we’re bickering.
Read how the deal came together here
Read the campaign’s news release here
2. Houses without Water
Castaic Lake Water Agency has decided it just doesn’t have enough water to serve 550 new houses in the Tesoro del Valle community in Saugus. That’s curious. Castaic had the water when the houses were going to be built in a different part of the tract, but when landowner Montalvo Properties decided to build the homes in a part of their planned development that is outside the district’s current boundaries, the supply suddenly dried up. We’re wondering: Is this a sign that water districts are starting to come up with creative excuses to limit the number of new homes they serve?
Read The Signal’s article here
3. Forward to the Past! The New Dam-Busters
From the Klamath dams up on the Oregon border to O’Shaughnessy Dam in Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Valley, all the way down to the Matilija Dam in Southern California, modern-day dam-busters are at work trying to take down wonderworks of engineering that help control flooding, provide water supply reliability and generate power with no carbon emissions. Sure, we’re transitioning from a resource exploitation economy to a sustainable economy, but we question the position – and even the sanity – of those who wage war against the dams that serve us so well.
Read blogger Ed Driscoll on the subject here
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