Save the Delta / Stop the Tunnels

Our Restore The Delta sign

Water Protector has been resurrected from the graveyard of unread blogs due to the imminent loss of our Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.  The possibility of our Delta water being exported to Southern California in twin tunnels appears to be becoming more and more of a reality.

I had not posted because there seemed to be such a plethora of really good writers out there that are writing about the BDCP, or Bay-Delta Conservation Plan, such as Alex Breitler, of The Record, www.recordnet.com.

   Plus, Restore the Delta had already released its excellent dvd, Over Troubled Waters, www.restorethedelta.org

However, can too much really be said about an important issue?

 When I last posted, (March 8, 2010), I complained that Sen. Dianne Feinstein had pushed for Delta water to be delivered to South San Joaquin Valley farmers by misleading the general public about the true nature of the water deliveries.   Feinstein had led the public to believe the water was going to "family farms"--as in "small family-owned farms."   The water was actually intended to go to huge corporations, such as Paramount--which owns the largest planting of almond trees in the world, in an area where almond trees can't possibly grow without irrigation water ... water that comes from other regions, such as our Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

This week it came out that the progressive/but, oddly, not really progressive Feinstein

"is now fighting to limit the meaning of journalist to prevent bloggers and others from being able to claim protections from surveillance or compelled testimony " claiming that bloggers are not "real reporters" because they are "not salaried agents".  http://jonathanturley.org/2013/08/13/pruning-the-fourth-estate-feinstein-seeks-to-limit-who-can-claim-to-be-a-journalist/

Even though I am not a salaried writer, I decided that the issue of protecting our Delta and all bodies of water is worth writing about.
So begins, the resurrected Water Protector.
Come back tomorrow to read a new blog.