Is the "California Water Plan" the same thing that Arnie is spamming?
I just got this email from him today:
California's economy, agriculture, jobs, families, environment and future depend on our water supply.Governor Schwarzenegger has a plan for our water future.
Unfortunately, lawmakers in Sacramento have not taken action on this issue. Waiting any longer for action is no longer an option - too much depends on it.
You can help move the Governor's plan forward by letting your Legislators know how important it is to you that they address this issue this year.
California needs water to keep our economy strong, keep people working in good jobs and keep our great state moving forward. Send your legislators an email today. Our state's water supply depends on it!
The California Dream Team
Arnoiled’s California Water Plan was worked out with Diane Feinstein and isn’t worth a dam!!!
The California Water Plan is updated every 5 years by law.
Here is an alert I sent out to some folks referencing some of the disturbing articles linked by the state...
The California Water plan publishes a periodic update http://www.waterplan.water.ca.gov/enews/index.cfm They have been working on an implementation of a watershed model where land, water and other resource use planning would be done on a watershed basis - crossing jurisdictional lines.
In the July 16 Water Plan update bulletin, they referenced some articles. If you look at the articles, they reference the European Water Framework Directive and models of “sustainability.” Linked articles discuss studies on “social learning” and “governance” : The Growing Importance of Social Learning in Water Resources Management and Sustainability Science http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art24/ and Sustainability Learning in Natural Resource Use and Management
http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/art3/ and Social Learning and Water Resources Management http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/art5/
According to the article, new “governance” models will replace the system of elected representative government with its constitutional and statutory delegations of authority. Public policy will be developed and implemented in a collaborative process by “stakeholders” - government bodies, companies, interest groups, non-government organizations and individuals, (European HarmoniCOP -Harmonizing Collaborative Planning.) http://www.harmonicop.uos.de/
A “governance” structure appears to be exactly what is proposed to be created for the Klamath River system in the proposed Klamath Restoration Agreement (dam settlement agreement.)
Of course, in America, our elected governments are constrained in the exercise of their “police powers’ of regulation to protecting the general public health and safety from substantial injury. The Supreme Court in Eubank v. City of Richmond, 226 U.S. 137 (1912), ruled that community committees controlling, disposing of or establishing standards governing the property rights of others did not constitute the reasonable exercise of the police powers for a legitimate public purpose. It appears the new governance bodies will have no such constraints. It appears their purpose is to get around the limitations in order to reallocate wealth by undermining private property rights.