[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: In case you missed it: What Westlands does with Delta water

[Wes Rolley]

I missed this earlier.  Bettina Boxall in a leading enviro reporter in 
the state and she really nails this situation.
>
> Now it (/Westland Water District/) is a driving force behind the most 
> ambitious water project proposed in California in decades, the 
> $25-billion plan to send Sacramento River supplies south to Westlands 
> and elsewhere through two giant water tunnels burrowed under the 
> Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
>
> The water would help Westlands for a time. But the expensive tunnels 
> would merely delay the inevitable: The more Westlands is irrigated, 
> the more its land will be ruined.
>



http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-westlands-20141021-story.html#page=1
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