Speed blogging

(Before It's News)

1. The SW US drought is in the news, but droughts are not new. More disturbing, the lack of action/reform or progress since the last drought (2008-9) depresses me. One silver lining is that I can refer you to old posts that are just as relevant today:
   • Reconsidering the Peripheral Canal (2008)
   • Water and the California Dream — The Review (2009)
   • Californians need to see the real water problems (2010)
   • No, Mr. Kightlinger. You’re part of the problem. (2012)
   • Self-evident water delusions (2013)

2. Robert Pyke deconstructs Bay-Delta propaganda [pdf] and concludes: “The BDCP is more about water quality and safeguarding the power of the Metropolitan Water District and its board’s pensions than it is about safeguarding water supplies”
3. I’ve been talking a lot to the public and reporters on the drought:
   • “History shows California subject to extreme droughts ” (Long Beach Press Telegram)
   • “North State water supplies under pressure as drought parches California” (Chico News and Review)
   • “Drought, poverty and water wars — Q & A” (2h 28m MP3) at San Diego State
   • “California’s water crisis is beyond a reasonable drought” (Sacramento News and Review)
   • “Living with Water Scarcity” (PDF slides and 1h 18m MP3) at the Fraser Institute

4. OTPR debunks California farmers’ claims that we’ll starve if they don’t get water
5. Fleck on overdrafting groundwater. Emergency today means tragedy tomorrow

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