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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

It isn't just the Colorado and it isn't just other states.  Southern 
California is *stealing* water from Northern California as well, as do the 
"turn the desert into farms" ag areas in Oregon.

The big outfit in So. Cal that has poisoned most of the land down there just 
got their water leased resigned even though they are farming half the land 
they were before.  All of it is subsidized by the taxpayers for big 
corporate farms, some of whom are foreign owned.  The water that is being 
subsidized by the taxpayers is being sold for a profit by these big groups. 
It is only the small farmers who are being made to change their irrigation 
practices.

In the meantime, Northern CA is loosing their fishing and loosing their 
water levels for local use.

Somehow, I don't think we need to make some big corporation more money nor 
do we need to finance the profits of these companies at the detriment to the 
rest of the state and other states.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 2:25 PM
Subject: [Homestead] Water out West


> > They also pay farmers to use more water efficient irrigation
> > methods and take what was saved.
>
> Farmers have done well. Some in the central valley no longer farm,
> just sell their water rights to cities. Why work? If memory serves,
> the original Colorado River Compact was based on the amount of
> irrigable land for agriculture. People had no idea in 1922 that
> population would grow to such immense numbers.
>
> The story of the Compact is a lesson. The original negotiators
> managed to get an agreement through reasonable negotiation without
> the usual lawsuit process. Later, Arizona and California brought
> big-time lawyers and the federal courts into their dispute. We all
> know where that leads.
>
>
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