Comments on: Brown vows tighter groundwater regulations

By: Outcast

Outcast — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 09:27:31 +0000

In reply to Just Another Disgruntled Citizen. Just another disgruntled citizen, yeah right. Nice try asshole!

By: Outcast

Outcast — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 09:24:10 +0000

B.S! Santa Clara County Water District drained San Jose its percolation ponds last year to “improve” the underground basins. They did not drain the ponds that are in public view.
They’ve been releasing water from our reservoirs at night, stopping before sunrise but deny this fact.
Repeated contact has resulted in run around and the “Be a water saving hero” email. They sure don’t work for us.

By: Queeg

Queeg — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:37:50 +0000

In reply to desmond. SF is hard pressed to balance compassion, free spirit living, law and order. How can you govern a run down filthy city that generally attracts renters with no idea why pride of ownership or stewardship are important in a whacko controlled "village".

By: desmond

desmond — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:21:09 +0000

I think it would be common sense for California to split up. The state in the Sierras could turn off the taps from Hetch Hetchy. It wouldn’t t be long before San Francisco would turn into Mad Max with cannibals. Talk about appointment television, a rainbow tied banker getting devoured by a gang from the Tenderoin in front of the Tadich grill, filmed by a drone with the CNN logo. Emmy material.

By: farmer dude

farmer dude — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 03:51:34 +0000

Ag does not use 80% of surface water. That number is a calculated, manipulative lie. Ag uses 41% in an average rain year. In extreme drought years like this, we’re not even close to 41%.

By: unclevito

unclevito — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 03:38:21 +0000

The environment uses 50% of the water and farming only uses 40%. Time water for the environment was conserved for human use. Also what is this talk about ground water. Really stupid to talk about that when it is the only source of water during a drought. Let’s talk about it after some big rains when folks can do without wells.

By: Queeg

Queeg — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 00:30:42 +0000

Nowhere to hide comrades. Food, water, oil, electric, roads, autos, air all in Plutocrats perview.

The little guy suffers and no one cares-

By: Dude

Dude — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:51:19 +0000

Skaroo you Moonbeam and you manufactured crisis. It’s hot. We call it summer. California has always had droughts and will continue to do so. Why you ask? Because our terra type is an arid sub-desert, and the only reason we have anything green here is because of the unnatural water flow brought here from the Colorado river. This Global Somethinging s sole purpose is to gain control over the citizens and their money.

By: Just Another Disgruntled Citizen

Just Another Disgruntled Citizen — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:50:51 +0000

Well. If the drought is this bad, then why hasn’t Gov. Brown and/or the State Legislature placed a statewide-no exceptions moratorium on all new development? While all this is going on, there are mega-warehouses, high-medium-low density residential housing, commercial, etc. projects going in all over the place. Every county and city in the state is greedy for increases to local tax revenue and loves this, then they complain if there isn’t enough water everywhere to supply the people that are already here. Also, the recent craze for tearing out oxygen-producing, temperature-reducing grass and replacing it with artificial turf is insane. That fake stuff has to be watered regularly to “keep it fresh”, it is a microbe-magnet, it is not self-renewing, and it is a serious health-hazard to people and animals. I guess right now we ought to be educating ourselves about the actual conditions of local water-delivery companies and agencies, how they get their water, how various government policies are affecting them, and what they think would be a better approach. Then we need to educate our Governor and State legislators. They really don’t hear from we the people as much as you think. They are all on a first-name basis with special-interest lobbyists, but they don’t know you (well, maybe they do, but if so you are the exception). Take a trip to Sacramento, visit the State Capitol, stop by Governor Brown’s office and say hello to your State Senator & Assemblyman, get to know their aides, stay for a legislative session. Remember, they work for you. If we want to solve our water and energy problems (hey, what about methane-generators that use animal waste & convert it to liquid clean natural gas?), we have to stop blaming others. Gov. Brown thinks he’s doing the right thing because his information is faulty. Instead of attacking him, show him a better way. Ask him if he thinks beef critters have more flatulence, pound for pound, than the vast herds of bison who used to roam North America for thousands of years. Ask him if he were persuaded that this makes sense, would he be willing to consider changing his policies to reflect a broader understanding of the situation. There is a way out of this, folks, and it is called the high road.