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TexasTowelie

(111,304 posts)
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 08:55 AM Dec 2018

Huge Delta water deal backed by Dianne Feinstein, Jerry Brown, Kevin McCarthy

WASHINGTON -- California’s most senior Democrat and most powerful Republican in Washington are teaming up to extend a federal law designed to deliver more Northern California water south, despite the objections of some of the state’s environmentalists.

While controversial, the language in their proposal could help settle the contentious negotiations currently underway in Sacramento on Delta water flows — the lifeblood of California agriculture as well as endangered salmon and smelt.

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, the House majority leader, are leading the push to fold an extension of expiring provisions in the 2016 Water Infrastructure for Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act into the year-end spending bill that Congress must pass this month. And on Friday, they won the endorsement of Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown.

The legislation would make hundreds of millions of federal dollars available for California water storage projects as well as desalination and water recycling programs.

Read more: https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article222443740.html

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Huge Delta water deal backed by Dianne Feinstein, Jerry Brown, Kevin McCarthy (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2018 OP
I live in San Diego. JayhawkSD Dec 2018 #1
Your concern is noted. stopbush Dec 2018 #2
Not really. JayhawkSD Dec 2018 #3
Making our own rules are we? stopbush Dec 2018 #4
Rules? JayhawkSD Dec 2018 #5
 

JayhawkSD

(3,163 posts)
1. I live in San Diego.
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 10:58 AM
Dec 2018

And I'm wondering why people in 49 other states should have their tax money spent for me to obtain drinking water.

And don't give me the "we send more money to Washington than we get back" bit. Two wrongs do not make a right.

We are a nation divided against itself. Fifty greedy states all digging in the money trough, each wanting more for itself than the other guy gets. "A nation divided against itself cannot survive."

stopbush

(24,378 posts)
2. Your concern is noted.
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 11:21 AM
Dec 2018

Yawn.

CA produces 25% of the nation’s food. Could there possibly be a national interest in having water to grow those crops?

stopbush

(24,378 posts)
4. Making our own rules are we?
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 02:13 PM
Dec 2018

And if the water is not diverted and the crops do not grow, who do you imagine is going to pay for non-existant crops? And if federal funds are not used, who pays for the water? The citizens of CA alone? Why should I pay for water to grow crops for other states? If CA farmers grew only to supply CA with food they wouldn’t need all that water.

Of course, we can always raise the prices on produce shipped to other states and let their residents pay for the water indirectly.

 

JayhawkSD

(3,163 posts)
5. Rules?
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 07:25 PM
Dec 2018

The water should be diverted, and the people who are growing the crops should pay for it. They in turn should add that cost to the price of the food they sell so that the people who eat the food pay for the cost of production. That way people who eat food grown in Ohio don't pay for food grown in California. It's not rocket science.

The government should not be in the food growing business. They should only be in the business of doing what private sector cannot do for itself, such as national defense.

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