Mesa Water on Conservation: in Cuba, Maybe, but Not Here.

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Surf City Voice
– November 20, 2016Posted in: "The OC", conservation, costa mesa, Fresh Juice, jerry brown, newport beach, Water

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by John Earl, cross-posted from Surf City Voice.

To the five elected directors of the Mesa Water District, conservation is a Trojan horse, unleashing Cuban-style authoritarianism, drop by drop.

The answer to the worst California drought in 500 years, they say, is to sell more water and build more ocean desalination plants.

Fred Bockmiller on conservation: In Cuba, maybe, but not here.

Fred Bockmiller on conservation: In Cuba, maybe, but not here.

“The solution to drought is water,” opined Director Fred Bockmiller during a recent (Nov. 10) Mesa workshop. Conservation doesn’t solve the lack of water, he reasoned, “It just means you don’t use it.”

In 2014, after three years of severe drought and foot-dragging by the state’s 400 water agencies, Governor Jerry Brown mandated state-wide conservation standards designed to achieve a 25 percent reduction in overall water use.

The Governor’s plan increased water savings by 28 percent at little if any inconvenience to Orange County residents. Continue reading…

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John Earl is the editor of SoCal Water Wars (previously Surf City Voice.) Frequent contributor Debbie Cook, a former Huntington Beach Mayor, is board president of the Post Carbon Institute.