The Chronicles of the Hydraulic Brotherhood
Lloyd G. Carter, former UPI and Fresno Bee reporter, has been writing about California water issues for more than 35 years. He is a member of the board of directors of the California Water Impact Network and Revive the San Joaquin, and President of the California Save Our Streams Council. He is also a board member of the Underground Gardens Conservancy and host of a monthly radio show on KFCF, 88.1 FM in Fresno. This is his personal blog site and contains archives of his news career as well as current articles, radio commentaries, and random thoughts.

ACTION ALERT: Help Protect the Delta

ACTION ALERT

Restore the Delta is asking you to take special action on behalf of protecting the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Please call your local Assembly Representative, State Senator, Governor Schwarzenegger, and Senator Diane Feinstein immediately and tell them that you are against the proposed water bond for the following reasons:

1) The peripheral canal will not solve the crisis in the Delta or make more water for California.

2) There are bond funds left from previous to begin doing the work needed to protect Delta levees.

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SCAMS, SCAMS, SCAMS

Here is how a water scam works in California.

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No Water Bond Literature

The poll that the governor is using to prove his 9 billion dollar bond measure will pass is flawed.

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Coalition of Environmental and Fishing groups announce opposition to water bond.

A coalition of environmental and fishing groups this week announced opposition to the proposed water bond being pushed by Gov. Schwarzenegger and Sen. Feinstein. CLICK HERE FOR MORE

Bill McEwen's controversial Westlands Water District column.

Fresno Bee columnist Bill McEwen wrote a controversial column this week (Aug. 14) on efforts of Fresno Mayor Alan Autry to get more water for the Westlands Water District andto help farmworkers in the process. To read his column click here: http://www.fresnobee.com/columnists/mcewen/story/796763.html

California Agribusiness Sows Bitter Fruit

A letter to the editor published in the New York Times from Lloyd. This is from 1996.

Published: June 26, 1996

To the Editor:

A June 20 news article on the conversion of Fresno County, California, "the most fruitful farm county in America," to uncontrolled urban growth is a lament for family farmers, but it leaves out the costs that industrial agribusiness, as practiced in the county's San Joaquin Valley, has extracted from the resource base.

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Letter opposes 9.3 billion water bond

A letter signed by many California environmental groups has been sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein opposing a proposed $9.3 billion water bond for the November election. To read the letter CLICK HERE

Kern County agency buys public water low, sells high

Delta fish suffered a crippling decline while taxpayers paid nearly $100 million to a Kern County water wholesaler for an environmental protection program that was largely ineffective, a Contra Costa Times newspaper investigation has found. View Full Story

Harvest of cash: Kern County agency buys public water low, sells high - By Mike Taugher
Contra Costa Times

Dam Facts, Dam Lies, and Statistics

Reality Takes a Back Seat to Hyperbole in Water Debate

By Steve Evans
Friends of the River Conservation Director
It's a sad state of affairs when good public policy takes a back seat to sound bites that have no basis in reality. So here is a selection of pithy-sounding but less-than-factual sound bites of dam proponents compared to the real facts of the matter (complete with footnotes).

"Do you know that for 20 years, well, actually since the late '70s, they have not built a dam? I mean, think about that. They have not built a dam."

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