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Editorial:

Water rationing isn't in Bakersfield's (immediate) future

The Bakersfield Californian - 5/4/08

By Robert Price

Rationing is an unpleasant word. It conjures up images of angry mobs pillaging relief trucks and humanitarian workers abandoning their distribution stations and running for their lives.

The word sounds considerably more palatable through the prism of the American experience. In fact, it has patriotic overtones.

No sugar, no coffee, no tires, no fuel oil? That'll be pretty tough, but our boys in uniform need those things. We can manage.

Contra Costa Times – December 8, 2007

By Mike Taugher, staff writer

Customers of one of the state's largest water delivery systems secretly commissioned a study last year to estimate how much it would cost to build a highly controversial peripheral canal to deliver water around the Delta.

The $50,000 study, completed in August 2006, shows that contractors of the State Water Project were actively considering a new canal similar to the aqueduct voters killed in 1982.