I'd like to tell you a story," del [Del Piero] began, "A story about ground water overdraft. When asked why Pajaro Sunny Mesa's proposal is preferable to Cal Am's, del Piero didn't directly answer the question. Instead, he gave a history of Order 95-10, the state mandate that the water company stop overpumping the Carmel River. "I actually had hair when that decision was handed down," he joked. "From my understanding, the agreement between Pajaro-Sunny Mesa and Poseidon is really just an agreement to agree to examine the possibility of working together," she says. And, she says, "The question remains, why have they not undertaken any serious environmental or engineering work in the past 18 months?"
When you talk water with folks it boils down to a choice between Thomas Edison and Al Gore. You want whiz-bang machinery or do- gooder conservation? I'm speaking of ocean desalination plants - the big machine solution to dwindling water supplies. But these can be seen as anti- conservation with slogans like: "If you build it, you can let the faucet run while shaving.
There are sufficient water resources in this county if properly managed," says Frank Egger. The former Fairfax mayor ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the district board on a platform that rested on two planks: no desalination and lots more conservation. "If they had a real state-of-theart conservation, reuse and efficiency plan, they wouldn't need a desal plant, they wouldn't need a pipeline to the Russian River." Egger and others say the district's desalination plan starts at $105 million, and they're concerned the district eventually could increase capacity - and expenses. There's the amalgamation of conservation sentiments and anti- tax sentiments (not to mention the debatable argument from anti-growth proponents who see desalination as development- inducing). Drier and deeper droug...
..., building and operating desalination plants enable corporate interests to more fully control w...
To stay ahead of potentially similar rules for desalination plants, the regional water project proposes sub-surface pipes that pull water from below the sea floor. A private desal venture led by Moss Landing entrepreneur Brent Constantz of Calera recently indicated it would pull deep water where there is less sea life. [Joe Geever], who favors conservation over desal, counters, "There are fewer organisms, but that makes each one of them more valuable.
What if the Colorado River dries out as radically as some scientists predict? The state would get creative, said [Rita Maguire] and attorney Grady Gammage, a research fellow at ASlTs Morrison Institute. First, it would buy out the remaining agricultural water in the Phoenix Valley (farms still use most of the valley's water), and then it might build desalination plants on the Pacific Ocean for California, in exchange for its neighbor's share of the Colorado. I don't think water is necessarily the limiting factor on Phoenix's growth," said Gammage, who has a penchant for provocative statements. "The limiting factor might be the quality of life. How many people will want to live here when the nighttime lows in the summer are 100 degrees?" Last summer, Phoenix topped 110 degrees 31 times,...
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