Comments on: CA drought spawns regulatory struggles

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:01:55 +0000

If regulators had not been making it so difficult to build reservoirs, especially small $50,000 to $200,000 reservoirs, on private property a lot more ag users would have their own water.

The response to the problem caused by those regulations is to have more regulations.

By: Desmond

Desmond — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 01:59:20 +0000

In reply to NTHEOC. The solution is to place public safety unions in charge. Total transparency, total honesty. History has proven, like in Nazi Germany, the Shah's Iran, the Soviet Union, police and fire are the best.

By: NTHEOC

NTHEOC — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 23:06:03 +0000

Why does their continue to be so much new residential,commercial,and industrial construction when we are in such a drought??? The amount of water it takes just to grade the land is astounding. Add on the amount of usage that will increase and it makes you wonder! Hey how about conserve our land first. But we all know the private sector greedy developer pigs have lots of money, and that trumps any drought.

By: Dork

Dork — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:12:16 +0000

But agencies across California are reporting they’ve taken steps to tap customers to offset the losses of conservation.

And that should be ABSOLUTELY ILLEGAL, They should be required to DOWNSIZE or CUT SALARIES, just like EVERY OTHER BUSINESS has to do in order to survive economic downturns. We the People should be demanding it, why aren’t people in the streets with pitchforks and rope??

Remember folks, og the 100% of the water we collect in various reservoirs,rivers,dams…

50% goes in to the ocean to save a Non-Native species called the DELTA SMELT and another 500 COHO Salmon.

40% is used by Agriculture

10 % is what ALL Business,Governments, and PEOPLE USE

a 25% reduction in the water PEOPLE USE is only 2.5% of the Big Picture, clearly within the “Margin of Error”.

Wake up People