March 14, 2012 Delta Water and News Links

Delta News
Nicky Suard, Snug Harbor Resorts
YouTube.com
Ryer Island Inundation History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnnDy1EPppw&feature=uploademail

ACWA.com
Lisa Lein-Mager: Informational Hearing Delves into BDCP, Delta Plan
http://www.acwa.com/news/delta/informational-hearing-delves-bdcp-delta-plan-issues

Aquafornia.com
Record.net Alex Breitler
Local Delta Contingent United at State Water Hearing
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20120314%2FA_NEWS%2F203140324%2F-1%2Frss02&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RecordnetNewsHeadlines+%28Recordnet+News+Headlines%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Aquafornia.com
News10.net
Environmentalists Say No to Tapping Delta For Agribusiness
http://www.news10.net/news/article/184085/2/Environmentalists-say-no-to-tapping-delta-for-agribusinesses

Aquafornia.com
San Jose Mercury News, Bonnie Eslinger
Critics Question Why Redwood City Lets Developer Control Environmental Studies of Saltworks Project
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_20168738/critics-question-why-redwood-city-lets-developer-control?source=rss
(That's because if one digs deep enough one will find the same dirty finger prints all over this.  AND it is imperative this overall paper water scheme is not allowed to become a precedent.

Look to Tejon Ranch for all the same players, the same source of water (Kern County Water Bank), the NGO's that have signed off on or were blackmailed by 'all of this for your mitigation, if we get ALL of that for our development...all of that includes 10-year segments of said same NGO's and the state basically turning a blind eye to whatever occurs in 'ALL of that'.)

Aquafornia.com
KXTL Fox 40
Lonnie Wong: SJ Water Officials Ready to Declare Water Emergency
http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-san-joaquin-water-officials-ready-to-declare-water-emergency-20120312,0,7490706.story

California Water News
Aquafornia.com
UTSanDiego.com
Michael Gardner: Met Delays Water Rates Opposed by San Diego
http://www.sdcwa.org/metropolitan-water-district-southern-california-vote-rate-increases-april

Aquafornia.com
MWD Press Release
MWD of SoCal to Vote on rate Increases In April
http://www.sdcwa.org/metropolitan-water-district-southern-california-vote-rate-increases-april
(hehe...San Diego 1...MWD 0 on this issue)

Aquafornia.com
LADailyNews.com
Melissa Pamer: 85 Magnolias To Be Cut in Panorama City of Sake of Water
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_20167520/85-magnolias-be-cut-panorama-city-sake-water?source=rss
(OMG...Really? Just cut them down?  85 mature magnolia trees...this is where our priorities are all messed up.  Cut them down?  How about maybe relocating some if not all 85 trees up here.  Isn't Sacramento 'The City of Trees'?  Well???  It's barbaric to just cut down trees...I'd study the underlying water table, seems to me these tree roots tapped it ages ago and would do just fine, well maybe a few selected to remain.  But I most certainly am not an arborist.)

Aquafornia.com
Calaveras Enterprise Record
Joel Metzger: FEMA Offers Few Solutions on Flood Maps
http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/news/article_af8434a2-6d2c-11e1-ba9c-0019bb2963f4.html
(Like you expected 'solutions' from FEMA? Come on....

Aquafornia.com
CapitalPress.com
Klamath Dams Report Gets Good Reviews
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/Ap-OR-Klamath-dams-031312

Aquafornia.com
Nitrates in California's Water, Study Finds
http://aquafornia.com/archives/63751
(More links here.)

Aquafornia.com
Senator Cannella Issues Statement on UC Davis Nitrate Report
http://aquafornia.com/archives/63737

Water News
Aquafornia.com
CapitalPress.com
Matthew Weaver: Rand Paul Asks Farm Bureau to Support Navigable Waters
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/mw-Rand-Paul-EPA-overreach-031612

Aquafornia.com
Columbia University, State of the Planet
Facing the Food and Water Challenges of the Future
http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/13/facing-the-food-and-water-challenges-of-the-future/

Aquadoc.com
WaterWired.com
Impressions, Day 2: Sixth World Water Forum
http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2012/03/impressions-day-2-sixth-world-water-forum.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fwaterwired+%28WaterWired%29

Agriculture News
Aquafornia.com
Western Farm Press
Working For Healthy Crops and Safe Water in California
http://westernfarmpress.com/management/working-healthy-crops-and-safe-water-california

Environmental News
National Center for Policy Analysis
Faulty Wells, Not Fracking Blamed for Groundwater Pollution
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=21705&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ncpadpd+%28Daily+Policy+Digest%29

National Center for Policy Analysis
Heartland Institute: Hydraulic Fracturing Is a Win-Win For Environment
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=21703&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ncpadpd+%28Daily+Policy+Digest%29

Political News
Cato Institute
Gene Healy: Congress Must Decide If It Or the President Declares War
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/congress-must-decide-it-or-president-declares-war

The Foundry
Rob Bluey: Reid Forces Senate Showdown on Obama's Judicial Nominees
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/14/morning-bell-harry-reid-opts-for-political-theater-on-judicial-nominees/

Science News
California Watch
Susanne Rust: The Future, say Head of Ford's Electric Division
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/future-here-says-head-fords-electric-division-15298

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development

Litigation News
Aquafornia.com
CBS Los Angeles
'Paranoia' SoCal Water Official Dismisses Charges of Pay-to-Play 'Secret Society'
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/03/13/paranoia-socal-water-official-dismisses-charges-of-pay-to-play-secret-society/
(Of course he would!  That's what all guilty parties say when they are about to be found out.  What? Like I didn't raise 4 kids and half a town?  Smoke and mirrors and deliberate distractions from the subject at hand are 'CYA rule #3'.)

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