Clearing the Backlog, Part III
Submitted by Aguanomics Blog
- Danger! Congress at work: “The Healthy Communities Water Supply Act, H.R. 700, will authorize $250 million… in funding for projects that increase the usable water supply by encouraging innovation in water conservation, recharge, recycling, reuse, and reclamation.” My response? (1) Why federal money on a local issue? (2) Raise rates to cut demand and fund improvements.
- Too many chiefs? “It’s puzzling that, in a county as compact as ours [Orange County], it takes 17 city water districts and 10 independent water districts and two independent get-the-water-to-the-people water management districts to quench our thirst…. I mean, how many electric companies do we have? There’s just one major player (Southern California Edison), and a few smaller ones (San Diego Gas & Electric, Anaheim City, Piedmont)” Why 29? Water is a local product, but it doesn’t have to be that local. It is due to a historical accident (water districts being formed around wells and rivers) and remains so due to political pressure to control water.
- The Economist rounds up the bad news for geo-engineering as a “solution” for climate change. Bottom Line? It won’t work as advertised.
- California’s water quality regulators have missed many deadlines for filing pollution permits — by years! Bad news for us and the environment.
- “The world is heading toward water bankruptcy as demand for the precious commodity outstrips even high population growth” — hysterical headlines that will go away as soon as water is priced according to scarcity.
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