Re: Prestigious panel agrees: Delta is stressed, with no easy fix
Yesterday, March 29, 2012, 11:41:42 PM Bobby Ingram
Question :Why did this article bring up 'saving the long finned smelt' ?? Answer : Because Very few of us care about it. The author does not want to tell us about the other thousands of species that are impacted by taking our Northern Calif water and shipping it down to Southern Calif to the Super Corporations who are growing in the desert and the miles and miles of green lawns and swimming pools. If this was happening in some far off place like the Amazon, environmentalist everywhere would be protesting and shutting down the pumps. But here in our back yards, barely a whimper.
Who sold our water ?? I asked 'Who sold our water? I don't remember voting on it ?? Did you vote on it ?? Are YOU the one that said 'Ya take all you want' ? Who was it that 'sold us down the river' and who gave them the right to sell our water. Its OURS by natural right. The rain falls on our hills and streets and runs down our gutters and little creeks and those people who live here where the water falls are the natural owners and our rights should come first, not the Mega farm Corporation's.
But lets not be greedy. Lets continue selling our water to those Southern California Green lawns, golf courses and Super farmers but at a rate that stimulates them into water conservation. I believe that if Our water cost them 3 times as much as present, they will conserve it and I won't whimper if I have to pay .10 cents more per melon.