Davis signs historic water agreement into law (Water Bill, Davis and DiFi)

Sacramento Bee ^ | 9-30-03 | Dale Kasler

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But it may be premature to celebrate as the key Imperial district has not yet approved the deal.

A historic agreement settling an age-old California water dispute was signed into law Monday by Gov. Gray Davis, although the deal could still be tripped up by opposition from the rural Imperial Valley.

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The warning signs are posted at

<http://www.calfraud.com/index.htm#DiFi>

A monster gold heist is well under way as Davis bankrupts California. The new governor should take a close look at this scam. It is deep and widely involved, the tip of an iceberg in the desert.

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The Imperial Valley farmers are the ones that got screwed. They had first rights to the majority of the Colorado River.

Cities and environmentalists just could not let that stand, regardless that the farmers had rights to the water.

It was inevitable that the feds, state, and cities would take it from them.

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I did include the original title, along with a hot link to the original. What are you doing acting like Jim Robinson with that title you use?

[Ben Ficklin]

They are getting $252/acre foot.

Water Pact Tough to Swallow for Valley Farmers

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Thanks, I read that article in the Soviet Union-Tribune this morning.

I grew up on a farm in Colorado. The front range cities are buying up water from farms. For example, the City of Aurora just about destroyed cantalope farming in the LaJunta area.

True farmers want to continue farming.

But time is on the side of the cities. I guess we'll import our food from other countries.

[Amerigomag]

Who paid a big price for this deal, without even a warning or a hearing? Strangely enough, Fresno.

Many in the valley weren't knowlegable enough to understand why a bill, sponsored by a San Diego area legislator, was aimed at Fresno.

They had an inkling why, at the last minute, the city of Sacramento was exempted from the legislation but few realized that manadatory water metering in Fresno, which has a surplus of water, was tied to the fedreal demand for statewide water conservation measures before San Diego could get their hands on the Imperial Valley water rights to the Colorado River.

Fresno residents were bewildered that the legislation was passed without even a hearing. They felt betrayed by both the state legislature and their local representatives who did not offer any prior warnings for fear they would be tared and feathered. Many suspicioned, after the fact, that their local representatives had sold them out as part of a deal on some other "greater" issue.

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Typical Gray Davis/Democratic Party deal-making. Farmers and ranchers in the Imperial Valley will face bankruptcy and the loss of their land so that rich liberals in Malibu can keep their hot tubs filled and the lawns at their beachfront mansions green.

[Myrddin]

It looks like the Imperial Valley farmers are going to get screwed so San Diego can continue expanding the population of the coastal desert. The Salton Sea was a consequence of an irrigation canal overflow in 1905 that persisted for 18 months. It is not a natural inland body of water. The only reason is hasn't dried up is because of agricultural irrigation runoff.

There is only a 4 foot vertical buffer between the Gulf of California and the Imperial Valley. That will be breached one day in an earthquake. The Imperial Valley will become an extension of the Gulf of California. It will be all salt water and unfit for growing food. When that happens, the San Diego area will suddenly be catastrophically short of fresh water.

The desert city of Calipatria flies the American flag at sea level...on a flag pole that is 135 feet tall.

[Myrddin]

Correction. The protective elevation minimum is 40 feet. See link.

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