The Bureau of Reclamation recently announced the selection of 31 planning projects to receive more than $28 million in appropriated funding to support potential new water reuse and desalination projects.
The 31 projects are in California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah. The projects also bring a cost-share contribution of $64.7 million, bringing the total investment of $93.7 million.
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Give LA’s Dept of Water and Power all the financing and desalination project building possible. They sit atop the Pacific Ocean yet drain surface and ground water resources to the death of the richest natural, wilderness, wildlife, cultural and tectonic-volcanic historical and earth sciences areas found in the Owens Valley of California frequented by worldwide traveling and vacationing communities from around the globe. They also drain water resources from the already overtaxed Colorado River and other US water resources. LA is a natural desert area now modified by golf-course lawns and megalopolitan water consuming populations at the expense of vast high mountain meadow rural areas now rendered dry deserts pocked with drained lake dust bowls blowing 1,000s of miles depositing ancient alkaline and toxic trace minerals such as arsenic in areas never intended nor designed ecologically to incorporate these now increasing substances in soils in addition to harms caused by human exposure and inhaling proved fatal and health damaging. Without close and constant monitoring, repetitive regulation enforcement, and historical, lengthy, on-going litigation LADWP’s conduct is, in general, unscrupulous and insidiously irreparably damaging. The only relief available to the stewards of these priceless, rare resource areas is a complete removal of LADWP irresponsible going concerns and business practices from these fragile areas, and their water resource self-reliance utilizing the endless ocean supplies at their ready disposal right off their own shores.
Give LA’s Dept of Water and Power all the financing and desalination project building assistance possible. They sit atop the Pacific Ocean yet drain surface and ground water resources to the death of the richest natural, wilderness, wildlife, cultural and tectonic-volcanic historical and earth sciences areas found in the Owens Valley of California frequented by worldwide traveling and vacationing communities from around the globe. They also drain water resources from the already overtaxed Colorado River and other US water resources. LA is a natural desert area now modified by golf-course lawns and megalopolitan water consuming populations at the expense of vast high mountain meadow rural areas now rendered dry deserts pocked with drained lake dust bowls blowing 1,000s of miles depositing ancient alkaline and toxic trace minerals such as arsenic in areas never intended nor designed ecologically to incorporate these now increasing substances in soils in addition to harms caused by human exposure and inhaling proved fatal and health damaging. Without close and constant monitoring, repetitive regulation enforcement, and historical, lengthy, on-going litigation LADWP’s conduct is, in general, unscrupulous and insidiously irreparably damaging. The only relief available to the stewards of these priceless, rare resource areas is a complete removal of LADWP irresponsible going concerns and business practices from these fragile areas, and their water resource self-reliance utilizing the endless ocean supplies at their ready disposal right off their own shores.