Lloyd G. Carter, former UPI and Fresno Bee reporter, has been writing about California water issues for more than 35 years. He is 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.
Groups write U.S. BOR to request full EIR of renewed water delivery contracts
Submitted by lgc_admin on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 01:37.The Sierra Club, Friends of the River and the Planning and Conservation League have written the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to request a full environmental impact report on a Bureau proposal to renew water delivery contracts for high selenium lands in the Western San Joaquin Valley. To read more, click HERE
UOP Professor Jeffrey Michael's Analysis of PPIC's New Water Myths Review
Submitted by lgc_admin on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 01:28.
Plastic Water bottles: Our 21st Century Problem
Submitted by lgc_admin on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 01:20.
Here is a video worth seein which I first spotted on a website called Water Wired. Something each individual American can act on. READ MORE »
Why the salmon weren't saved half a century ago.
Submitted by lgc_admin on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 13:14.60 Minutes Water Piece Comments
Submitted by lgc_admin on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 22:54.How about enforcing current water laws?
Submitted by lgc_admin on Thu, 12/24/2009 - 15:47.Cotton Rotten?
Submitted by lgc_admin on Thu, 12/24/2009 - 15:44.That "all-natural" cotton T-shirt in your closet? The one with the eco-friendly message brightly printed on the front? Ounce for ounce, it could be the most environmentally toxic item of clothing you own. From the water and agrichemicals lavished on cotton grown in some of the world's driest regions (approximately one-third of the pesticide and fertilizer produced worldwide gets sprayed or dusted on cotton), through multihued rivers of waste streaming from textile mills to landfills bulging with castoff clothing, the life cycle of the humble cotton tee has left ecological wreckage in its wake.
To learn more, click HERE:
http://www.miller-mccune.com/science_environment/can-china-turn-cotton-green-1638.print
NASA Satellites Can See California's Wealth Transfer All The Way From Space
Submitted by lgc_admin on Thu, 12/24/2009 - 15:42.
From the Website lastdaywatchers.com
NASA Satellites Can See Californias Wealth Transfer All The Way From Space
Posted by Esther On December - 19 - 2009NASA Satellites Can See Californias Wealth Transfer All The Way From Space
The problem with the water debate, to the extent there is one, is the way its spun. Long dominated by eco-warrior do-gooders, the fight for water has been framed as boringly and abstractly as possible. How is the environment supposed to register in our primitive brains when 1 out of 5 Americans still think the sun revolves around the earth? In fact, its pretty simple what the big struggle for water is all about: the rich fleecing the rest of the country. Fact is, theyve been treating our water wealth like one giant personal trust fund. And it seems theyve been hitting up the ATM so often that even NASAs satellites can see the withdrawals all the way from space:
New space observations reveal that since October 2003, the aquifers for Californias primary agricultural region the Central Valley and its major mountain water source the Sierra Nevadas have lost nearly enough water combined to fill Lake Mead, Americas largest reservoir.
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Gaming the system, seventeen years later
Submitted by lgc_admin on Thu, 12/24/2009 - 15:38.Seventeen years ago Patrick Porgans and I wrote an op-ed for the Sacramento Bee warning that publicly-owned water would be privatized to the benefit of a few individuals who could "game" the system. That op-ed written long ago at the end of a drought is truer today than when it was written.
Harris Ranch wants to control Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo University with money.
Submitted by lgc_admin on Thu, 12/17/2009 - 17:18.It appears that if Cal Poly-San Luis University wants to continue to get contributions from the Harris Ranch folks all future controversial speakers at the University's Ag department will not be able to speak by themselves. They will have to appear in a group forum type arrangement, presumably with a Harris Ranch official in opposition. Consider the threatening letter below regarding an appearance by famed writer Michael Pollan:
