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Dear readers of the Chronicles of the Hydraulic Brotherhood, on Tuesday night, August 11, 2009, Sean Hannity of Fox News (AKA Faux News) did a short piece on the water problems of the western San Joaquin Valley, interviewing Rep. Devin Nunes and Comedian Paul Rodriguez, who is head of the California Latino Water Coalition. Unsurprisingly, the segment was full of falsehoods, misinformation and disinformation. My bracketed comments below are an effort to provide some balance to the slanted report.  There is a link in the material below so you can watch the Hannity "fair and balanced" report and judge for yourself.  READ MORE »

The peripheral canal proposed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and corporate agribusiness will appoximate the width and length of the Panama Canal, according to Assemblymember Joan Buchanan (D-Alamo).

People have asked me my opinion about the "March for Water" that was sponsored by the California Latino Water Coalition from April 14 through April 17. I was out of state during the four-day march but later reviewed newspaper and TV news accounts of the event, which got extensive coverage from San Joaquin Valley media but little play in the rest of California or the nation.

My View: New canal would not help the 'ailing' Delta
The Sacramento Bee – 4/7/09

Commentary by Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson co-manages Wilson Farms and Vineyards in the Clarksburg District of the Delta. He served on the Stakeholders' Advisory Group to the Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force and was appointed by the governor to the Delta Protection Commission in January 2008 as an agricultural production representative.

The Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that approximately 71 percent of the runoff from commercial and residential landscaping could be eliminated through better landscape irrigation planning. Some communities such as Newport Beach have imposed restrictions on landscaping to reduce selenium from leeching from the soil into the bay.

Plants hate overwatering too. "Eighty percent of all landscape assets are lost to overwatering. Plants get deeper root structures if you let them deplete," Spain said. "Trees topple over next to lawns because of overwatering."

Landscaping currently exacerbates droughts and shortages. Fifty percent of urban water use goes to landscaping. At the same time, thirty-six states will face water scarcity issues in the next few years. Water bills, meanwhile, continue to climb. In the past five years, water costs have risen 29.7 percent nationwide. Water costs alone rose 11 percent to 14 percent in Los Angeles last year alone, he said.

There's even an energy conservation play. Roughly 19 percent of the energy in California is consumed in processing and delivering water. Therefore, if you can reduce water consumption, you can also reduce greenhouse gases. An Obama-friendly employment angle? Yes. 50,000 landscaping companies employ 10.5 million people nationwide.

To learn more CLICK HERE: http://www.greentechmedia.com:80/articles/a-smart-grid-for-water-5743.ht...

The FRESNO BUSINESS JOURNAL

Carter strikes back at KMPH over farmworker comments

Written by Business Journal Staff
Thursday, 12 February 2009

Fresno’s Lloyd Carter, the environmental activist decried as a racist for remarks he made to KMPH (Channel 26), is asking the station to post his 8-10 minute on-camera interview with reporter Ashley Ritchie in its entirety.

He is also alleging that a bias of Ritchie’s might have motivated the report’s editing.

Carter said KMPH aired only 10-15 seconds of the interview — conducted before a Feb. 4 water policy debate — and used his comments about farmworkers without the proper context.

February 12, 2009

Senior vice President/General Manager
KMPH FOX 26
5111 E. McKinley Ave.
Fresno, CA 93727
Phone: 559-252-5900 Fax: 559-456-1542

Dear Sir or Madam,

On February 4, 2009 your reporter Ashley Ritchie aired a small portion of an interview with me regarding farmworkers that generated significant local news coverage and resulted in me being branded as a racist, harming my professional and public reputation.

To all my friends and all my critics, I am going to address my controversial comments about farmworkers and the resulting witch hunt on my radio show this Friday at 3 p.m., KFCF, 88.1 FM. If you are unable to listen at that time, or are out of range of the radio station signal, the show will later be posted on this website and at H2opodcast.com

I haven't yet had a chance to defend myself, thanks to the hatchet job by the Hydraulic Brotherhood.

Lloyd

By Zafrir Rinat, Haaretz Correspondent

Tags: Water, Palestinian Tul Karm

Israel will soon be unable to use a considerable part of its natural water sources, the Water Authority warns, because of the deteriorating quality of ground-water reserves, exacerbated by reduced rainfall due to climate change.

A view of the future? Salts evaporated from agricultural drainage water in the Western San Joaquin Valley accumulates in huge evaporation ponds near Kettleman City in western Fresno County near Interstate 5. Millions of pounds of salts, heavy metals and trace elements are accumulating annually in thousands of acres of evaporation ponds in the western valley. These lands are essentially ruined for all future uses, as is the groundwater below the ponds. The photo was taken in October 2008.