Arnold, Tell the Truth About California's Water!

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http://counterpunch.com/bacher08232007.html


Schwarzenegger's True Lies About Dams and Canals


California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger keeps repeating at his press conferences and meetings the big lie that no dams or water storage facilities have been constructed in California in the past 20 to 30 years.

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In spite of what the Schwarzenegger says, a number of dams and reservoirs have been constructed in California since the late seventies, including some of the largest reservoirs in their respective regions.

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I believe that by promoting the myth that dams and water storage haven't increased in California over the past 30 years, the Schwarzenegger administration is trying to create in the public mind the idea that water supply can be magically expanded by building two new dams and a peripheral canal. The problem isn't that that there aren't enough dams and water storage facilities in California ­ the problem is that virtually all of the economically feasible dam sites have already been taken and that California's finite and fragile water resources have already been overallocated.

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Building a peripheral canal or constructing economically unfeasible dams will not provide the solution to California's water problems. The solution is for California and the federal government to take drainage-impaired land in the San Joaquin Valley out of agricultural production and to promote innovative ways of water conservation that will allow California's fragile water supply to serve both environmental needs and the needs of cities, farmers and industry. The state should also also move full speed ahead with building water desalinization plants in southern California that utilize the latest in technology to effectively increase the public water supply.
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hope there are historians at work recording the beginning and continuing of the water wars

we need and inter active world map on the water matter

(there is an inter active terrorism map, an inter active incident map, already. any others I've missed?)