{"id":22725,"date":"2015-04-16T18:57:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T22:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22725"},"modified":"2015-04-16T18:57:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T22:57:46","slug":"california%e2%80%99s-water-wars-heat-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22725\/california%e2%80%99s-water-wars-heat-up\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Water Wars Heat Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fight is brewing in California between state regulators and local water suppliers over how to cope with mandatory water usage reductions ordered by Governor Jerry Brown.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s State Water Resources Control Board received more than 200 letters from cities, counties, and water districts balking at the proposed regulatory structure for monitoring compliance.<\/p>\n<p>Criticisms include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monthly water usage rates are \u201cmeaningless\u201d because varying temperatures and rainfall fluctuate dramatically during the year<\/li>\n<li>Lack of credit given to water agencies that have already reduced their usage rates through local conservation programs or locally financed desalinization projects<\/li>\n<li>Farmers outside the Central Valley \u2013 the state\u2019s agricultural hub \u2013 being treated the same as urban districts which do not get an exemption<\/li>\n<li>Failure to subject public school and college campuses to the same water use restrictions imposed on cities, since the former often are able to \u201coverride local building and zoning codes\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everyone in California is feeling the pinch of decades\u2019 worth of neglected improvements to water storage capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to \u2018green\u2019 environmentalism, much of California may soon be brown.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-water-cut-targets-20150415-story.html#page=1 \" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fight is brewing in California between state regulators and local water suppliers over how to cope with mandatory water usage reductions ordered by Governor Jerry Brown. California\u2019s State Water Resources Control Board received more than 200 letters from cities, counties, and water districts balking at the proposed regulatory structure for monitoring compliance. Criticisms include: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,2035,50,300,4664],"class_list":["post-22725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-jerry-brown","tag-rationing","tag-regulation","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22725"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22731,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22725\/revisions\/22731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}