Calif. gives away more rights to water than it has
By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis
California has allocated five times more surface water than the state actually has, making it hard for regulators to tell whose supplies should be cut during a drought, UC researchers reported.
The scientists said California’s water-rights regulator, the State Water Resources Control Board, needs a systematic overhaul of policies and procedures to bridge the gaping disparity, but lacks the legislative authority and funding to do so.
Ted Grantham, who explored the state’s water-rights database as a postdoctoral researcher with the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, said the time is ripe for tightening the water-use accounting.
Better information might enable state regulators to better target water cutbacks in times of drought, Grantham said.
Got a problem? Let’s let government fix it! Yeah!
They always spend more than they’ve got, be it money, water, whatever. . . yet you keep wanting to take rights from the private sector, and give it all to the State.
‘Cause THIS time it’ll be DIFFERENT!!
Dogula, the only reasons for government is to act as an impartial referee for property claims and to provide for the national security.
Water rights are property rights.
Hence, creating laws that define the right and the rules for its use and disposition is exactly why government exists at its very core.
Doesn’t look to me like government is behaving in an impartial way. They seem to be taking property rights from private citizens at every turn.
Isn’t it time to rein them in?
Take your meds dog…I can hear you screaming all the way down here at the y
I agree with you Dog. Typical government. The government would mess up a *** dream.
Though I agree with Dog mostly I don’t agree with you on this….
“Isn’t it time to rein them in?”
It is time to remove them from the government employee roles.
I am not talking about the politicians, its the socialist/fascists in government that need to be purged. Those that acted criminally like Lois Lerner in the IRS: Prison for life.
The IRS has apparently become criminal organization and needs to be shut down. What better time to have Real Tax Reform.
Those mega rich democrat Obama buddies – they need to start paying their fair share plus some penalties to make up for the time that they got all them extras too.
Enslaving the citizens is a crime of the highest order.
This election season will determine the fate of your children and grand children, if you want them to live in a fascist country then keep supporting the democrats.
Not enough water? Alright, then let’s build MORE massive hotel resorts at ski resorts around the Basin that will rely on massive snow-making. Great plan, TRPA and Placer County!
Huh? There is not enough of a scarce resource (water), and residents, industry and agriculture are using more water than is available. So most of the posters here blame the government? Not consumers who demand more water than can be supplied in a desert?