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Way out West the big farmers fly Lear jets, have private airstrips on gargantuan factory farms, control politicians in both major parties, and harvest barrelfuls of taxpayer subsidy money. They also...
View ArticleBureau of Reclamation's Letter to the State Water Board RE: Selenium in...
Felix Smith, the whistleblower on the bird deformities at the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge back in the 1980s, has filed a complaint with the State Water Board over the continued irrigation of...
View ArticleFelix Smith Responds to US BOR and CA DWR.
Felix Smith is the Kesterson whistleblower who filed a petition with the State Water Resources Control Board to halt the irrigation of high selenium soils on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley....
View ArticleResponse to the Felix Smith article from top Interior Department official...
Ed Imhoff, was a top Interior Department official who headed a $50 million five-year study of the drainage problems on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley from 1985 to 1990. He saw my story on...
View ArticleUse Westlands’ Irrigation Water to Restore Rivers and Delta, Salmon Fisheries
Congress considers continuing irrigation of contaminated lands; C-WIN proposes ambitious plan to end water waste READ MORE »
View ArticleSome Things Never Change: SWRCB Five Year Plan
The State Water Resources Control Board recently issued a draft five-year work plan on the Delta ecosystem's water needs. This so-called "work plan" has been fiercely criticized by the California Water...
View ArticleAutry threatens to stop paying income taxes.
Fresno Mayor Alan Autry is calling for citizens to stop paying their taxes until more water is delivered to the Westlands Water District. He says he'll stop paying his taxes and go to jail if...
View ArticleLloyd writes letter to Water and Power Subcommittee Chairwoman registering...
On July 21, I attended a field hearing of the House Subcommittee on Water and Power at Fresno City Hall and was so appalled by the obvious slanted nature of the proceedings that I decided to write...
View ArticleWestlands officials ponder big buy-in on Bay Delta Conservation Plan
By Lloyd G. Carter Westlands Water District directors Wednesday (Nov. 20) hosted a workshop on the controversial Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and were told by California Department...
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