VIA John Broeske: Who Should We Fine? - At Families Protecting the Valley weve been calling it the Congressionally Created Drought or Government Created Drought for years. We believe California has been given adequate rain, but that elected officials and appointed bureaucrats have mismanaged our resources in too many ways to count. So now that theyve allowed hundreds of thousands of acre feet of water go to waste, the State Water Resources Control Board is pondering how much to fine the innocent victims of their mismanagement. In the article below Tom Del Becarro gets it right when he proposes that the SWRCB needs to be fined, not us. We agree. We could never waste as much as they mismanage. Unfortunately, the elected representatives have convinced most Californians that the drought is to blame. Certainly the drought is part of the problem, but if we dont correct the need for sufficient storage with new reservoirs, raising dam heights, forest management, desal and sane management we will always have a water shortage. Even without more storage we wouldnt be in the fix were in if we had better stewards of our water resources. One piece of advice for the SWRCB: Look in the mirror and see what the rest of the world has already figured out, but you havent. forbes/sites/thomasdelbeccaro/2014/07/10/californias-low-on-water-time-to-fine-the-water-resources-board-not-its-citizens/
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 05:29:43 +0000
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