The California Department of Water Resources last week released its next five-year plan for the State Water Project-Update 2023.
After years of meetings, California's premier water agency has decided to focus on "Three intersecting themes: addressing climate urgency, strengthening watershed resilience, and achieving equity in water management." Water supplies for California's 40 million people and the planet's most productive agriculture have third- to fifth-level priority.
Really? Over several decades, the public has been deceived into voting for water bonds that have little new water in them-phony promises to build new water storage and aqueducts.
The DRIP fantasy continues despite a deluge of 2024 water from two winters of giant "Rivers in the sky" dumping excesses of water and creating massive floods and landslides.
Jennifer Pierre, general manager of the State Water Contractors, stated: "While we are glad to see this modest allocation, it is still far below the amount of water we need. There is a lot of water in the system, California reservoirs are full, and runoff from snowpack melt is still to come. Even in a good water year, moving water effectively and efficiently under the current regime is difficult." California's drought fixation is entirely manmade.
C.R. Rockwood, William Mulholland, Michael O'Shaughnessy, Gov. Pat Brown, and Gov. Ronald Reagan built dams and aqueducts to store and distribute water and to provide flood protection and hydroelectricity "Too cheap to meter." As I have said before, California wastes tens of billions of dollars' worth of precious fresh water to save handfuls of delta smelt and "Restore" salmon runs where salmon never ran before.
As I've also mentioned before, tyrannical water police order city folk, who use only 8 percent of California's water, to drink recycled toilet water and to live on 55 gallons a day.
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