<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div class="" style=""><a href="http://www.trinityjournal.com/opinion/editorials/article_4f7bf1d0-5410-11e4-83a2-0017a43b2370.html" class="" style="">http://www.trinityjournal.com/opinion/editorials/article_4f7bf1d0-5410-11e4-83a2-0017a43b2370.html</a> <br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><iframe
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style="font-size: 24px; outline: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; background-image: none; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;" class="">No on Proposition 1; it fails to protect North State waters</h1><div style="font-size: 17px; outline: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-image: none; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;" class=""><span style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;" class="">Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 6:15 am</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px; outline: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-image: none;
float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;" class="">There’s a lot to like in Proposition 1 on the November ballot. The bond measure would provide $2.7 billion to help finance new water storage, including the Sites Reservoir in Colusa County. It would provide billions for groundwater cleanup and management, watershed restoration, water recycling projects, advanced water treatment and seawater desalinization projects.</div><div style="font-size: 17px; outline: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-image: none; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;" class="">What it doesn’t do is provide any protection for North State waters and fisheries. Like the Bay Delta Conservation Plan and Gov. Jerry Brown’s ill-fated twin tunnel proposal, there’s nothing in the measure that protects the
reservoirs and rivers of the North State.</div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;"><div style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 10px; background-image: none; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;" class="">That alone would have us encouraging a “No” vote, but there’s much more to dislike:</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;"><div style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 10px; background-image: none; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;" class="">► It adds billions in debt at a
time California can scarcely afford it.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;"><div style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 10px; background-image: none; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;" class="">► It burdens taxpayers across the state to mostly benefit Central Valley farms and communities, in violation of State Water Project policies and common sense.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;"><div style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 10px; background-image: none; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important;
position: relative !important;" class="">► In a twist of logic that only government can conceive, the measure requires taxpayers to buy water the public already owns to protect fish and the environment. We’ve argued long and hard that water speculators should not benefit by selling excess North State water without some benefits returning north. A transfer fee on resale, perhaps?</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;"><div style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 10px; background-image: none; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;" class="">► Roughly 7 percent of the bond will be spent to provide safe drinking water and clean water programs to disadvantaged communities. This is good, but far too little, too late,
and represents a pittance of what is needed.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;"><div style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 10px; background-image: none; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;" class="">► Likewise, not enough of the bond targets the long-lasting, sustainable regional projects which would be a better answer to California’s water woes.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;"><div style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 10px; background-image: none; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important;
position: relative !important;" class="">Bill Jennings, executive director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, has said Proposition 1 “is a poster-child of why California is in a water crisis: it enriches water speculators but accomplishes little in addressing the drought, solving California’s long-term water needs, reducing reliance on The Delta, or protecting our rivers and fisheries.”</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;"><div style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 10px; background-image: none; float: none !important; overflow: visible !important; position: relative !important;" class="">For all of the above reasons, we urge a “No” vote on Proposition 1.</div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family:
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