Comments on: Politics pollutes ‘water rights’ bill

By: Shane Atwell

Shane Atwell — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:10:05 +0000

Donelly came closest to touching on the fundamental moral issue: if its a right, then who is going to be forced to provide it? And why does owning or producing something (e.g. clean water), mean that others can steal it from you, while not having it gives you carte blanche to plunder? There can be no right to a thing or service, only to freedom of action to produce or trade for that thing.

By: Chris Brooks

Chris Brooks — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:36:51 +0000

Wholehearted agreement from me. While this legislation may earn points with certain favored constituencies it could perversely end up limiting people’s access to clean, affordable water by limiting the ability of utilities to recover the costs of implementing solutions to water problems.

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:26:17 +0000

I thought I saw Poodle at the camp urinal in Yosemite!

He had a day tripper tag on his collar!

By: Wayne Lusvardi

Wayne Lusvardi — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:40:58 +0000

Thanks for the update Ms. Grimes

For more background on the “public goods water charge” see “California Water Cold Water Heats Up” May 10, 2011

ww.calwatchdog.com/2011/05/10/ca-water-cold-war-heats-up/

By: Edward Steele, Chief Investigator

Edward Steele, Chief Investigator — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:03:01 +0000

I think the Poodle does drink from the toilet Hondo– good point.

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:24:27 +0000

While some Central Valley water is pretty skanky (admittedly not a very scientific term), this farcical piece of feel-good legislation is surely not how you fix it.

Agreed on the “lawyers” bit. Surely that is what doofus Huffman meant when addressing “entrenched interests”?

By: Hondo

Hondo — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:09:58 +0000

This law was written by the lawyers. This is endless litigation, a transfer of public money to the lawyers.
America has some of the cleanest water on earth. If you can’t find clean water in Kalifornia that means you’re drinking out of the toilet with the dog.
Hondo……..

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:54:58 +0000

I gotta print and frame this. A perfect example of everything that is wrong with California’s Democratic Party in 2012.

A seemingly innocuous piece of legislation that looks good on current campaign mailers but will eventually have ginormous unintended consequences.