CA water agencies launch scare commercial

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"SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) today announced the launch of a statewide public education program, entitled "California's Water: A Crisis We Can't Ignore," to educate Californians about critical challenges now confronting the state's water supply and delivery system, including a deepening crisis in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta (Delta) and a recent court-ordered massive reduction in our statewide water supply."

http://www.kswo.com/Global/story.asp?S=7063709

This statewide campaign includes radio and television commercials targeted to all major markets. ACWA calls the new scare ad "educational material." It comes complete with a dark, ominous and foreboding sound track. Whoever did this piece of work has some experience producing slasher movies, no doubt.

You will find a link to this new 30-second commercial here, in the green box on the right side of the page. The file is a little over 3MB. Let me know if ACWA yanks the link to this commercial. I made a copy.

http://www.calwatercrisis.org/
 
Makes me sick..

Do you think there will be any type of "rebutal" ad? I sure hope, but don't know who (.orgs or whomever) can afford it?
 
Mitch, check out this link http://www.stopthecanal.org./

They need our support and contributions!

I emailed the Governator opposing his "conveyance system". Got a reply saying we need find more water for all new millions of people projected to come into CA in the future. Heck, we do not need to build more houses for more people to use more water! We need to slow down the growth and be smarter with our resources.
 
What happens when the Delta runs out of water for the growing state? Where are they going to get it?
 
I updated the L.A. Times URL for the Colorado River Delta story.
 
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What happens when the Delta runs out of water for the growing state? Where are they going to get it?
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Exactly! Their approach is as if California has an infinite amount of water and it just needs to be channeled. BS!

I think I heard a TV commercial about using desalination a day or two ago. I wasn't watching, just listening. Did anybody see a commercial about desalination or was I daydreaming?
 
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Mitch, check out this link http://www.stopthecanal.org./

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Thanks, I signed up with them when it started. Also folks can go here to help also (scraped from the Coast Side Fishing Club Political forum)
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This campaign needs our help - if you haven't done so already please go to the Water 4 Fish website and send a message to our government officials to manage these waters in such a way as to protect the fish.

http://www.water4fish.org/ You can go directly to the sign the petition page at http://www.water4fish.org/sign-petition/

The attachment is a status of the Letters and Petitions Signed by Calif. Fishermen asking for Policies to Restore Fish Runs in the Klamath River and the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta
 
Well, after various versions of "eco-friendly" radio commercials with Will Durst's smooth voice, I heard the kicker this morning on KCBS. This one explicitly mentions a canal to take water "around the Delta", even though the peripheral canal has supposedly been dropped. It's still in play, folks.

BTG
 
The newest version would run water down the middle of the delta using existing waterways with reinforced levees: http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/395331.html Assuming there is "leakage" as it crosses other waterways, it has the potential to improve water quality in the middle part of the delta unlike the peripheral canal. If they're planning to extend the levees across intersecting waterways, it would be a navigational disaster, and even worse than the canal.
 
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