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Dorothy Green dies at 79; activist founded Heal the Bay

By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 14, 2008

From the Los Angeles Times

Opinion

Heal the Bay's founder lays out her vision for a clean and sustainable state supply.

By Dorothy Green

October 8, 2008

To everything there is a season; but water is eternal. Or it was, until we started disturbing its natural rhythms. We penned it behind dams and diverted it to aqueducts, starving the life out of rivers and creating an unsupportable addiction to using more water than we need to live.

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Despite the looming crisis in water, we have enough to live on, but not enough to waste.

Lloyd spoke to nearly 100 Edison High School Computech science students during a "BioCamp" at Lake Sequoia in the High Sierra on Sept. 30. He addressed three different groups of 9th graders at the four-day camp, each group comprising about 30-35 students. The BioCamp was organized by Edison High science and physics instructor Bruce Ratcliffe, a long-time friend of Lloyd's. All of the students indicated they want to attend college and four said they want to be marine biologists.

Southern California is moving ahead with plans to shore up its drought year water supplies.

In February of 1949, famed U.S. Geological Survey superscientist David Love issued a warning that selenium in shale soils throughout the American West could pose a serious toxicity problem for wildlife, livestock and humans if those tainted lands were brought into production for farming or mining.

Sasha Khokha's National Public Radio California Report on state water issues will air this evening (Friday, Aug. 22) at 6:30 p.m. on KVPR, 89 FM, in Fresno. If you can't listen tonight, you can hear it later via podcast at www.californiareport.org
Lloyd was interviewed for the water report, which last about five minutes.

Here is how a water scam works in California.

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.

Think Canada's got plenty of fresh water? Think again.

The current mini-drought California finds itself in reminds me of events of 30 years ago when the Golden State experienced another short, but severe drought. The water battles in California then remain strangely the same.