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Groundwater takeover would prove costly
In 2010, I did some freelance work for Susan Trager, one of California’s top water lawyers. Unfortunately she died in 2011. Even though I had been writing about California since 1987 and had a general idea of state water policy,
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Gov. Brown, Legislature push groundwater regulation
This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Due to the current compound drought and water storage shortage, California legislators are considering enacting groundwater regulation over the entire Central Valley aquifer. Some recent developments: State Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills,
Read MoreNorth/South CA intensify water war
June 13, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi A North/South California water war has been waging since William Mulholland took a civilian militia of shotgun-wielding soldiers to Owens Valley in 1927 to guard the Los Angeles Aqueduct from further bombings by local
Read MoreNew Water Rights Atlas exaggerates CA water problems
April 22, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The Resource Renewal Institute, an environmental activist organization, recently posted online its new California Water Rights Atlas. The atlas alarmingly asserts: “Currently, water rights holders claim they divert [that is, use] in aggregate approximately 250 million
Read MoreMarkets best would clean up L.A. pollution storm
This is Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 1 is here. Dec. 4, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi In Part 1 of this series, I explained how an $8 billion tax storm soon will swamp Los Angeles property owners. The
Read MoreGleickgate Pollutes Enviro Movement
FEB. 24, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The environmental movement is suffering from a cluster of scandals. First there was Climategate. Then there was Climategate 2.0. Now, there’s Climategate 3.0 — also called “Gleickgate.” Climate activist Dr. Peter Gleick of the
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