A California Call to Action; December 16th D-Day for Saving the State of California and Its Water

From Citizen-sleuther Elaine Buxton; we have a deadline to save California's water from additional thievery.

This is an important one, and a Call to Action is warranted.

From Citizen-sluether Elaine Buxton, we have an important call to action to save California's water from more thievery. If you care about California's water, please submit a comment.

For more backstory regarding California's current water thievery, you can find my earlier coverage in my Elaine Buxton interviews here and here. We detail how California’s water is stolen and hidden in a sophisticated shell game.

Below is a brief introduction to the Delta Conveyance Tunnel Project, and a link to the environmental impact report (EIR) for your review is here. 

The public may email written comments until Dec 16, 2022, to the DWR (California Department of Water Resources) here. This deadline has been pushed from October 2022.

The Delta Conveyance Project is a plan by the state of California to build another 39-foot diameter tunnel and additional reservoirs to divert water from the Bay Delta at the junction of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers to southern California cities and farmers. The purpose is to supply and protect water quality and amount for "water exporters" due to the rising salinity in the Delta from low water levels. The tunnel would be about 40 miles long, take 14 years to build, and cost an underestimated $16 billion in 2020 dollars.

"Salinity in the Delta is largely a tug of war between the daily and seasonal tides pushing in from San Francisco Bay and the flow of fresh water coming down through the rivers and heading out of the Delta towards the Bay. Salinity in the Delta is regulated to protect municipal and industrial, agricultural, and fish and wildlife uses, and if the saltwater intrudes too far into the Delta, it can make the water unusable. Since the Department of Water Resources and the Bureau of Reclamation manage most of the water stored in upstream reservoirs, as well as the flow structures and pumps in the Delta, they have the primary responsibility for managing salinity in the Delta.” (Maven's Notebook, 2014)

Ironically, pumping fresh water from the Delta into the proposed pipelines would only exacerbate the current challenges and salinity infiltration into the Delta and valley farmland. There's no way of getting around this.

Now, if California's governors had cared about California's water, they would have wrangled in the corrupt water agencies and commissions that have allowed California's water to be absconded with... as addressed by four members of the CA state legislature who sent a letter last August to US Attorney General Merrick Garland at the DOJ urgently requesting an investigation into suspected water manipulation and theft of water supplies. 

And yet, tunnels to divert water from northern California to the south have been promoted by every governor since Pat Brown and are actively pushed by Governor Newsom today. 

This support by governors or the pipeline such as Newsom doesn't make sense until one realizes it is to protect "water exporters" and not protect the resource itself, the customers, or the state, as seen in these hefty donations to stop Newsom's recall in 2021 from California water & agriculture barons Lynda and Stewart Resnick of the Wonderful Company, also donated a combined total of $314,800. 

Those pesky exporters; they want their water at any cost, including the destruction of our Delta and farmland.

Please share with every Californian you know.

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