Help Stop The Water Grab! Save the Delta!
You may have received an email notice from the California Department of Water Resources, our long-time adversary DWR, inviting you to register and come to one or more Community Benefits Program Workshops.
I urge you not to register or go to any of these workshops. This is simply DWR’s way of duping Delta residents into helping them get their giant water grab tunnel project approved. The more people who register and attend these sham meetings, the more it will help DWR hoodwink a judge into believing that this tunnel is good for the Delta and that DWR cares about us! What rot! Nonsense!
Instead, I urge you to email back to DWR at deltaconveyance@water.ca.gov and tell them we are not interested in any tunnel workshops. What we want is to reduce exports of Delta water. We want DWR to study alternatives to a tunnel in their upcoming Environmental Impact Report, including the end of pumping Delta water hundreds of miles and up and over the Tehachapi Mountains to Los Angeles. All that money spent, and electricity wasted, pumping trillions of tons of water up and over a mountain range can easily pay for desalination, water re-use and recycling, and water conservation that will make up far more than the amount of water being drained from our precious Delta. DWR, just tell Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to stop being lazy, do their job, and develop local and regional supplies so they can stop killing our Delta!
They have been trying to build their crazy watergrab tunnel since 2006, and even before that the old peripheral canal. We have beaten them every time, in court, and at the ballot box. As long as Delta residents stick together and remain united against the tunnel, we will win again!
Let’s all of us stick together and Just say NO! to DWR, their tunnel, and their phony community meetings.
Bill Wells
