Comments on: Feinstein Waves White Flag in Water War

By: Wayne Lusvardi

Wayne Lusvardi — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:00:28 +0000

Denny
It is my understanding that the proposed Water Bond – not the Peripheral Canal proposal by the Governor – would include levy reconstruction. The Biblical apocalypse portrayed by water agencies of being cut off from northern California water supplies is self-serving so it is hard to know what the truth is.

You are making a case for the Peripheral Canal. If there is a cut off of California Aqueduct water from the Delta but water could be routed around the Delta it would add a flexible and more reliable source of water. But politically, the water social contract in California has historically been water in return for flood protection.

Read my article “Cadiz Water Holds the Key to CA’s Resources” at this website. It explains how dry lake beds are nature’s way to allowing underground water to escape to the atmosphere. Harvesting dry lake beds would take no water from anyone nor the environment. How much water might there be to harvest from dry lake beds is probably not known. But it is worth exploring.

By: Denny Schneider

Denny Schneider — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:18:48 +0000

Do either of the bills provide money to shore up the aged Sacramento Dela levys? I understand from MWD that one major earthquake could breech a levy allowing fresh and salt water to mix resulting in half of the So Cal water supplu being lost for at least six years….

By: David H

David H — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:19:04 +0000

Karen M, The central CA valley is the most productive farm land in the world. Export or not it affects the price of food here as our production competes with imports. The CA valley is a perfect location for agricultural production with abundant water in the surrounding mountains that naturally flow to the ocean through her bosom. I’m all for an increase in organic crops and a decrease in harmful pesticides, but it’s asinine to tear out damns. In my value system people are worth more than fish, and food production is worth more than recreation.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:40:39 +0000

Those dried up fields are fairly convincing….driving through the 5 last week, with walls of dust being blown around definitively seems like a dustbowl…though of course the sheer scale of the dustbowl in the 20’s and 30’s was far greater

By: Wayne Lusvardi

Wayne Lusvardi — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:41:32 +0000

Now let’s try and retrospectively interpret those signs posted along Highway 99 and Interstate 5 with words like “New Dust Bowl” and “No Water-No Jobs” with dried up farm fields along the roads.

The political Left said the farmers never experienced a drought because farm productivity and gross revenues increased during the court-ordered “drought” from 2007 to 2010. But that is because farmers shifted to groundwater and fallowed acreage that depended on appropriate water granted by either the state or Federal governments.

So what the farmers were apparently trying to tell the public was that their Central Valley Water was grabbed by Sen. Feinstein and her HR 146 Bill in 2009. And they didn’t want the Delta Smelt case to grab even more.

See here: http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x1928173741/Water-for-Central-Valley-farms-plentiful-but-drought-signs-remain

By: Chris Gulick

Chris Gulick — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:27:43 +0000

DIFI is a well oiled weathervane that swings in whatever direction pays the most.She will do the bidding of her buddy Stewart Resnick as she always has. Wouldn’t John Garamendi make a fine senator ?

By: LGMike

LGMike — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:36:16 +0000

Negotiate, sure Senator Feinstein is willing to talk now, because she knows what ever bill that would be good for Republican’s will be vetoed by the President, and we all know you can’t get a 2/3 override vote in the Senate.

By: Beelzebub

Beelzebub — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:38:05 +0000

Feinstein was born in ’33. That will make her 79 when she runs for office again in Nov. That means she’ll be 85 at the end of her term. WAY TOO DAMN OLD TO BE IN THE SENATE VOTING ON CRITICAL ISSUES THAT IMPACTS MY LIFE!!!!

Go spend time with your grandkids, DiFi! Give up the power you old bag!

By: Rex The Wonder Dog!

Rex The Wonder Dog! — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:01:03 +0000

Feinsteins Hubby runs CB Richard Ellis commercial real estste, and he has gotten tons of sweetheart deals to dispose of bank owned prioerty (banks taken over by the gov).

By: Karen M

Karen M — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:47:04 +0000

@David H…”I feel sorry for the poor fish and fishermen because of decreased water flows and pollutants but raising food prices and taking agricultural land out of productions in not the answer. The smart fish and fishermen will go to better waters.”

If you took the time to research the entire issue, you would then correctly come to the conclusion that maybe it IS the answer to not allow these corporate/absentee landowners to continue to plant permanent crops that are EXPORTED and demand high continues amounts of water to maintain, as well as huge amounts of water to irrigate their polluted toxic soil out of production…because apparently, as with smart fish and fisherman, these ‘smart’ farmers would go to better soil where water is naturally abundant.

Your ignorance only further muddies water already opaque.