<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12px; "><h2 class="date-header" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#336699" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://www.aguanomics.com/2011/06/water-will-not-help-mendotas-unemployed.html">http://www.aguanomics.com/2011/06/water-will-not-help-mendotas-unemployed.html</a> </span></font></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-size: 15px; "><span>Tuesday, June 14</span></h2><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.5em; "><a name="5385232946327092105"></a><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1em; "><a href="http://www.aguanomics.com/2011/06/water-will-not-help-mendotas-unemployed.html" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">Water will not help Mendota's unemployed</a></h3><div class="post-header-line-1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; "></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; "><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="separator" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; clear: both; text-align: center; "><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WkAUxVJkm84/TfTnuBfzLiI/AAAAAAAACLc/SEUUkZno4Mk/s1600/salt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; "><img border="0" height="200" width="200" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); " id="febfcb97-00a6-440c-a647-4665db18e4c1" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:549C0FD9-0249-4EF1-924A-56F619C02985"></a></div>Deirdre Des Jardins of California Water Research Associates <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/56909617/Mendota-Evidence-that-soil-and-groundwater-salinization-is-the-predominant-cause-of-land-fallowing" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); ">argues</a> that fallowed land around Mendota (the town famous for its 40% unemployment) is the result of salinity build-up, not a lack of water for irrigation.<br><br>Westlands has argued that places like Mendota are suffering without water and cited "<a href="http://www.aguanomics.com/2011/05/lies-damned-lies-and-politics.html" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); ">high</a>" unemployment and fallowing as a reason to export more water from the Delta to Westlands. That argument is hollow, since more water would not help Mendota. It would help farmers in other places, but they are not suffering as much from unemployment and fallowing. (They probably want to switch to water-intensive tomato production.)<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>For the fulle report, see: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/56909617/Mendota-Evidence-that-soil-and-groundwater-salinization-is-the-predominant-cause-of-land-fallowing">http://www.scribd.com/doc/56909617/Mendota-Evidence-that-soil-and-groundwater-salinization-is-the-predominant-cause-of-land-fallowing</a> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; clear: both; "></div></div><div id="outbrain_widget_0" class="OB_default" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; display: block; "><div id="outbrain_container_0_stars" class="div-wrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; direction: ltr; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 1.3em; clear: both; "></div></div></div></div></div></span></body></html>