Thread: Stolen Water...Mexico's Sense of ENTITLEMENT.

Think you all will enjoy this article....it's another perfect example of the sense of ENTITLEMENT that is too often exhibited by those from across the border when it comes to America. If you have a leak, and the leak gets bad enough, you fix it...right? Not if Mexico has it's way....seems a canal that supplies water to San Diego has been leaking for decades, and now that there is a plan to repair the problem, Mexico wants to cry foul as they would lose their FREE SOURCE OF WATER!

Border Fight Focuses on Water, Not Immigration
Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times
Farmers near Mexicali have long relied on seepage from the All-American Canal to irrigate their fields. More Photos >

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/us/07 ... ref=slogin

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published: July 7, 2006
CALEXICO, Calif. — For more than 100 years, as their names imply, Calexico and its much larger sister city, Mexicali, south of the border, have embraced each other with a bonhomie born of mutual need and satisfaction in the infernal desert.

Skip to next paragraph
Multimedia

Slide Show: On the Mexican Border, a Fight Over Water

More Photos »

The pedestrian gate into Mexico clangs ceaselessly as Mexicans lug back bulging bags from Wal-Mart and 99 Cent Stores in Calexico. The line into the United States slogs along, steady but slower, through an air-conditioned foyer as men and women trudge off to work and, during the school year, children wear the universal face that greets the coming day.

Now, the ties that bind Calexico and Mexicali are being tested as a 20-year dispute over the rights to water leaking into Mexico from a canal on the American side is reaching a peak. Though the raging debate over illegal immigration in the United States has not upset border relations here, some say the fight over water could affect the number of Mexicans who try to cross here illegally.

To slake the ever-growing thirst of San Diego, 100 miles to the west, the United States has a plan to replace a 23-mile segment of the earthen All-American Canal, which the federal government owns and the Colorado River feeds, with a concrete-lined parallel trough.

The $225 million project would send more water to San Diego, by cutting off billions of leaked gallons — enough for 112,000 households a year — that have helped irrigate Mexican farms since the 1940's.

But Mexican farmers and their advocates say the lined canal would effectively turn off the spigot for 25,000 people, including 400 farmers whose wells rely on the seepage that has helped turn the powdery fields east of Mexicali, an industrial city, into one of the biggest Mexican producers of onions, alfalfa, asparagus, squash and other crops.

Some dummies in government have already given them the Rio Grand. Those whinning farmers can move to another part of Mexico that has adaquate water for your farming.

Dixie

I guess the Senate would add a line to S.2611 as a manager amendment to require Mexican permission to repair a water canal. Why not?

Originally Posted by Dixie

Some dummies in government have already given them the Rio Grand. Those whinning farmers can move to another part of Mexico that has adaquate water for your farming.

Dixie

Ya, we have water watches here sometimes

I would rather charge them for the water. We could use the money to pay back hospital bills of illegals. If we make more of them poor, like the farmers who are actually making a living over there, we are just adding bodies that plan on crossing over here.

If you give them a hand , they wll take your arm , if you show fear , they will defeat you, if you confront them they cowardly withdraw.

Well if they are getting it anyway, fine. Just charge them for it. I don't want to ruin the lives of the ones that are actually working over there. That doesn't make any sense.

Appeals court OKs concrete lining for canal on U.S.-Mexico border
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 04/07/2007 09:58:32 PM PDT


SAN DIEGO- A federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. government can line a major canal with concrete where it parallels the border with Mexico to keep millions of gallons of water from seeping south.
Proponents of lining the All-American Canal say it would provide 67,000 more acre-feet of water, enough to meet the needs of more than 500,000 homes in fast-growing San Diego County.

Opponents, who sued to block the project, said it would devastate farmers in the Mexicali Valley who rely on the canal's seepage to replenish their aquifer.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that a law signed by President Bush last year orders the Bureau of Reclamation to start the project without delay.

The court's ruling lifts an injunction granted last year when opponents sued.

Although more appeals are possible, the project's supporters said they hoped Friday's decision would resolve the matter.

"This is truly a Good Friday," said Daniel S. Hentschke, a San Diego County Water Authority attorney. "This is enormously important for San Diego and the entire state."

The 82-mile-long canal, fed by Colorado River water, was completed in 1942. It feeds crops along both sides of the border in an area about 100 miles east of San Diego.

Opponents of the $200 million project include both environmentalists and business representatives. They say lining the area's 23 miles of canal will dry up tens of thousands of acres of Mexican farmland, cause Mexican wells to become polluted and threaten migratory birds by eliminating wetlands. That in turn, they say, could cause significant job losses and other economic problems on both sides of the border.
The court said Mexico already takes 1.5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water a year under the terms of a 1944 treaty and is entitled to no more.

I bet you they line it, water is way to valueable.
Most of the water in the Colorado river is from snow melt and there hasn't been that much snow in the Rockies lately, when I lived up there a few years ago the lakes were down about 60% and most of the people were on water rationing.
With all the homes being built in San Diego they need this water and will take all they can get, water = money.

Yes and all the homes being built in san diego gee, lets think about who's buying those homes.