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    Water crisis in California?. No, CA has a population crisis

    Water crisis in California?. No, California has a population crisis
    Tuesday, 20 May 2008

    Stop the flood of crimigrants Now!
    Alex Wierbinski

    The recent LA Times article reporting on water rationing in LA, cited here , fails to provide context or meaning to the deepening water crisis that is confronting California. The article fails to mention that California water policy is doomed to ultimate failure, why our water is failing and what this tells us about the political and economic elites that are running our state, and our country.

    The effects of the water crisis are cascading through every group in California. The first victims are our citizens, who are being told to ration water so that our politicians and businessmen can continue to expand their markets by expanding our population. The next failure is hitting among the businessmen and developers themselves, who have pushed our growth past the point where it can sustain itself, or the windfall profits this irresponsible growth brought them. The final victim will be California’s massive industrial agriculture machine, as they will soon come to understand that their wealth, power, and political clout are going to be proved insufficient to prevent the cities from taking their water. This is going to be a good fight, a fight that I can confidently predict that nobody will win.
    No group in the United States, let alone California, will be left unscathed by the intensifying drought conditions that are deepening across the whole Southern, Southwestern, and Western regions of the United States.

    At this point in time California's water system has already failed its citizens, and the failure will deepen through the Summer. To be more precise, the politicians and corporate interests who rule over us have failed. They have allowed a massive irresponsible flood tide of crimigrants into California that has stripped our state of all of its natural and social resources, including our water.

    Make no mistake about it. It is our bribed and corrupted politicians who are responsible for growing us beyond our natural resources. They have used our water system, just as they are using our whole social infrastructure to subsidize and perpetuate the very same irresponsible growth that has sucked the resources out of our social, political and natural infrastructures, including our water supply.

    In the face of the water needs of our swelling foreign population, our water supply is insecure and uncertain. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Today we are looking at an impending drought and long term decline of rainfall right in the face.

    This drought is not the beginning of global warming, but rather it is the product of the radical shift in seasons that California, and much of the country has already experienced.

    Winter no longer begins and ends at its customary time here in California. Radical changes have occurred in the direction from which the winds blow. Rain, snowfall, temperature and humidity levels have changed radically in less than thirty years. This extreme change in the seasons has radically changed California, and the bounty and beauty of our State has already been radically reduced, all to allow our politicians and corporations to create the greatest concentration of wealth and power in our country’s history.

    Nature’s warnings have been clear for over ten years, but we have been too stubborn and stupid to listen. And we are continuing to stuff the country full of people we do not have the water, energy, schools, hospitals or prisons to support.

    It appears that the seasons are also changing around the world, and these changes are triggering a deepening series of global crop failures and yield declines, just as the demands of massive global population growth have put incredible pressures on food supplies. The changes in the seasons that are depriving us of water here are pushing food prices everywhere in the world, including California, through the roof.

    The same situation of declining production and increased demand is also fueling our energy crisis. Like our water crisis, our energy crisis is not a function of a lack of supply, nor a failure in the delivery system.

    We have plenty of water, energy and food. The problem is that our corrupt politicians have sacrificed our water in pursuit of profits and power. This quest for wealth and power has brought our population far beyond the natural limits of our water and energy supplies. Rather than protect our rights, resources and welfare, our corrupt leaders have sacrificed all three in their pursuit of irresponsible profit and wealth.

    Political bribery and corruption has not only stuffed our country full of crimigrants, hijacked our democracy, and drained our state of it’s water, but the very same process has destroyed our schools, filled our prisons beyond capacity, and driven our wages and benefits to 3rd world levels. Our impending water crisis is indicative of the general condition of our social and political institutions: they too are breaking down.

    This breakdown is the inevitable result of allowing political corruption and bribery to break our democratic institutions. The result was the pursuit of long term growth policies based on sucking our political, natural and social infrastructures dry. These consequences of these corrupt policies are reaching fruition.

    Despite the poor reporting about the deep relationship between our water crisis, our corrupt politicians, and our seemingly endless growth, it has becoming apparent to more Americans that the political corruption that dominates our democracy has become a clear and present danger to the health and welfare of our citizens. Americans are realizing that their bribed politicians will raise foreigners up by bringing them down, and that the corporate media will either ignore it, or say it is a good thing.

    Despite the facts on the ground, our fool politicians are ignoring the fact that our water supplies and the average amount of rain and groundwater we possess are completely insufficient to supply the present needs of our citizens, nature, (Do you like to hunt , fish, ride or enjoy nature? Too bad for you. All the fish, birds, and game are rapidly disappearing.) and the needs of industrial agriculture. Providing the supplies or necessary for the massive future growth the politicians and corporations are salivating over is impossible.

    They are salivating because our politicians and corporations are anticipating the profits to be made from their plan to stuff many more millions of illegals into California than they have already crammed into our state.

    The answer of our fool politicians to the conflict between their growth plans and our lack of resources? Build a peripheral canal to steal more Northern California water for the foreigners packing into LA. Rather than face our natural limits, our fool politicians are working to build more dams to maintain the pretense that we have the water sustain the irresponsible growth and development that brought on the crisis California faces today.

    Meanwhile, the politicians keep telling the crimigrants and developers not to worry. As long as they can keep the flood of crimigrants surging into the state, they can maintain the supply of cheap labor, and the developers and corporations will continue to fund the politicians. Despite our shortage of water and energy, and the cost of food, our politicians are working hard to maintain the cycle of corruption that sustains them. They plan to continue flooding the state with crimigrants until they wring the last drops of water out of our state's already depleted water supplies, and leave us all high and dry.

    Even if they manage to build a massive peripheral canal and dam every river in California, our irresponsible growth and development will still be stopped in its tracks by decreasing water supplies

    The fact is that our state's water and the health and welfare of our citizens has been sacrificed by corrupted politicians to maintain a massive flow of cheap, docile crimigrant labor into the arms of corporate America. Our water, our rivers our fish, the once bountiful ecosystems of California, and our democracy itself have been sacrificed on the altar of political corruption and the pursuit of irresponsible profits.

    Until we pry the death grip that corporate bribery and corruption has on the throats of our politicians, our money, our rights, and all of our resources, including water, will continue to be drained by our corrupted politicians and their corporate sponsors with the help of their foreign minions.

    Until then, all of our resources, including our last drop of water, will continue to be sacrificed to maintain the irresponsible power of our politicians, and the irresponsible profits of their corporate sponsors.

    Also see; Global Warming? naw, The Seasons have already changed: http://committeefordemocracy.org/Corrup ... 35.html#c3

    Alex Wierbinski is a fifth-generation San Franciscan born in 1958 and raised in the Bay Area. I have had the misfortune to witness the Bay Area's transformation from a beautiful place to live into a mega-city that is, sadly, almost indistinguishable from Los Angeles. My life's work is to end the corporate bribery that has displaced our democratic process. Once that is achieved, we can easily change the qualification for citizenship from being an illegal servile economic slave, to belief in the core principals and practices of our democratic republic.

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    L.A. prepares massive water-conservation plan
    The initiative would punish water wasters and limit such activities as watering lawns and washing vehicles. And it would revive a controversial effort to recycle sewage water.
    By Rich Connell
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

    May 15, 2008

    With vital and often-distant water sources shrinking, Los Angeles officials today will revive a controversial proposal to recycle wastewater as part of a plan to curb usage and move the city toward greater water independence.

    The aggressive, multiyear proposal could do much to catch the city up to other Southern California communities that have launched advanced recycling programs.

    Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's effort could cost up to $2 billion and affect a wide range of daily activities. For example, residents would be urged to change their clothes' washers, and new restrictions would be placed on how and when they could water lawns and clean cars.

    Financial incentives and building code changes would be used to incorporate high-tech conservation equipment in homes and businesses. Builders would be pushed to install waterless urinals, weather-sensitive sprinkler systems and porous parking lot paving that allows rain to percolate into groundwater supplies.

    Just to meet a 15% increase in demand by 2030, officials say 32 billion gallons a year will have to be saved or recaptured -- enough to cover the San Fernando Valley with a foot of water.

    Prohibitions during the 1990s drought -- banning residents from washing driveways and sidewalks, letting sprinklers flood into gutters and watering grass in midday -- would be enforced again, with additional restrictions. One part of the proposal would limit lawn watering to certain days of the week.

    "This is a radical departure for the city of Los Angeles," said Department of Water and Power General Manager David Nahai. "I think overall this plan is going to be a beacon for other cities."

    In fact, cities facing the same challenges, including Long Beach, have already moved to curtail residential and commercial water usage and punish waste. Orange County and other Southern California agencies are also recycling treated sewage water back into the drinking supply.

    Los Angeles' plan -- a copy of which was made available to The Times -- would invest in projects to capture and store rainfall and clean up a sprawling, contaminated water supply beneath the San Fernando Valley. About $1 billion would be allocated for reclamation, including a politically sensitive plan to use treated wastewater to recharge underground drinking supplies serving the Valley, Los Feliz and the Eastside.

    A similar system was approved and built in the 1990s, then abandoned after critics labeled it a "toilet-to-tap" scheme.

    The city learned from its earlier "aborted attempt" at water recycling, Nahai said.

    "This is a new day," he said. "We have new technology. We're going to reach out very aggressively to the public and engage them as to the facts."

    One critic said voters should decide whether the water supply will be blended with treated wastewater. "It's grossly unfair for the mayor, the City Council or the DWP to decide consumers are going to be using this recycled water," said Gerald A. Silver, president of Homeowners of Encino.

    But Millie Hamilton, an Encino Neighborhood Council member and docent at the city's Tillman Water Reclamation Plant, said recycling is safe, needed and nothing new. "There is no new water on this planet," said Hamilton, who was referred to The Times by the mayor's office. "We are drinking the same water the dinosaurs drank. All our water has been and is being recycled."

    The ambitious water plan carries political risks for the mayor, but also could burnish his record as an environmental leader in a bid for higher office. A number of key details remain to be worked out and vetted by the City Council, including the cost of various elements and how they would be financed.

    On the heels of a recent DWP water rate hike, Nahai said no additional increases are anticipated. Most parts of the program can be funded from state water grants, the DWP's existing budget and going after polluters who have fouled city groundwater. But future fee increases may be needed, he acknowledged.

    David Coffin, a Westchester Neighborhood Council member who tracks water issues, said the plan misses a larger point: controlling growth.

    "I don't think they're going to make any headway. They're adding 14,000 to 16,000 housing units a year in the face of water shortages. How are they going to supply all those people?"

    Administration officials say the point is to act now so the city can meet increased demand through a combination of conservation and recycling. They note that Los Angeles is an arid metropolis that has grown by dipping long straws in far-flung water supplies.

    But recent court rulings, environmental agreements and competition from other urban centers are cutting flows or sharply increasing costs of water from the Owens Valley, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and the Colorado River.

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    These politicians speak of Billions like it "Water" should be NP for these Great men (cough cough) to totally ruin the country . For Profit of course
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    Re: Water crisis in California?. No, CA has a population cri

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    Water crisis in California?. No, California has a population crisis.
    Tuesday, 20 May 2008

    Stop the flood of crimigrants Now!
    Alex Wierbinski
    I thought this the other day when the drought surfaced this year again. Imagine the water saved by pressing attrition on the illegals! We have mostly idiots running our states and country, and the towns have to assume all the bills
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    Like Mark Twain said: "Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over"!
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    Re: Water crisis in California?. No, CA has a population cri

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    Water crisis in California?. No, California has a population crisis.
    Tuesday, 20 May 2008

    Stop the flood of crimigrants Now!
    Alex Wierbinski
    I thought this the other day when the drought surfaced this year again. Imagine the water saved by pressing attrition on the illegals! We have mostly idiots running our states and country, and the towns have to assume all the bills
    Another GREAT reason to get them outta here. The list goes on and on.
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    I THINK ITS A VERY BAD IDEA TO RECYCLE SEWAGE WATER. BEFORE YOU KNOW IT WE WILL ALL BE GETTING SICK FROM TAP WATER. WE NEED TO REDUCE THE POPULATION.
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    Same thing they are doing with our gas nation wide...they tell us to cut our use or our prices will keep going up....yet they keep bringing millions upon millions into the country on every kind of visa to use OUR gas supply and then blame us for having to get to work and back. And Americans are falling for it without even questioning it, infact most probably don't even know the first thing about visa's or that we have 11 different kinds that allowed 6 million people into the country in 2007.




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