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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Lawn-watering in Southern California means that the State Water Project increases exports to 60% this year so that MWD can sell the water over the summer.     Back to business as usual for MWD and other urban water agencies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Urban conservation would mean that the increased exports are used to replenish MWD’s depleted reserves in Diamond Valley and Semitropic.   This would mean increased reserves in the event of another dry year in 2017-2018, and less need for another TUCP.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Does this really “not matter much?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Deirdre Des Jardins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>California Water Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="mailto:ddj@cah2oresearch.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ddj@cah2oresearch.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>831 423-6857 v<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>831 566-6320 c<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>@flowinguphill<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> env-trinity [mailto:env-trinity-bounces@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Stokely<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 12, 2016 8:09 AM<br><b>To:</b> Env-trinity <env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us><br><b>Subject:</b> [env-trinity] Capitol Journal So the drought has you watering less? It won't matter much<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5244"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-drought-edict-20160512-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-drought-edict-20160512-story.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5244"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:15.0pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5782"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:38.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#CCCCCC'>Capitol Journal </span><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style='line-height:43.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:43.5pt;color:black;font-weight:normal'>So the drought has you watering less? It won't matter much<o:p></o:p></span></h1></div><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5795"><div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#999999'>A number of California water districts are expected to urge state regulators to relax emergency water restrictions as rain and snow this winter have eased five years of drought.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#999999'> (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5794"><div style='margin-top:11.25pt;margin-bottom:18.75pt;display:table' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5795"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><img border=0 width=70 height=70 id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5797" src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5362d83b/turbine/la-columnistmasthead-skelton/70/70x70" alt="George Skelton"></span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#FF5443'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanews-george-skelton-20130507-staff.html#nt=byline" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5800"><span style='color:#FF5443;text-decoration:none'>George Skelton</span></a></span></b><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><a href="mailto:george.skelton@latimes.com?subject=Regarding:%20%22So%20the%20drought%20has%20you%20watering%20less?%20It%20won't%20matter%20much%22" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5802"><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#FF5443;text-decoration:none'>Contact Reporter</span></b></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#999999'>Capitol Journal</span><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:18.75pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5804"><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:9.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.4pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5807"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5808"><div style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5809"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Gov. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics-government/jerry-brown-PEPLT007547-topic.html" title="Jerry Brown" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5810"><span style='color:#4591B8;text-decoration:none'>Jerry Brown</span></a> wants to forbid you from hosing down the driveway. And he is really cranky about lawn watering.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5811"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>But corporate agriculture is free to plant all the water-gulping nut orchards it desires, even in a semi-desert.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:11.25pt;min-height: 0px;transition: height 0.5s;-webkit-transition: height 0.5s;box-sizing: content-box;max-width: 550px;overflow:hidden' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5812"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5813"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5815"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>This is the essence of the governor’s new long-term drought policy that he announced Monday.</span><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5818"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Brown intends to make permanent some urban water conservation rules that had been temporary. He also plans to give communities more flexibility to decide how much water they should save, depending on local conditions. But it’s basically hands off agriculture.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5821"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>The governor issued an executive order declaring that the state must “move beyond temporary emergency drought measures and adopt permanent changes to use water more wisely and prepare for more frequent and persistent periods of limited water supply.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5823"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5828"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-water-conservation-20160509-story.html"><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;text-decoration:none'>Some emergency drought rules might be eased, but don't start hosing down sidewalks</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5831"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>He directed the State Water Resources Control Board to, among other things, “eliminate water waste” in urban areas. He specifically mentioned hosing off sidewalks and driveways, washing cars without a shut-off nozzle, sprinkling lawns in a way that causes runoff and irrigating grass on public street medians.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5832"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Well, OK. Everyone needs to do their part.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5833"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>But let’s not forget: Residential lawns soak up only about 5% of developed water in California. All residential outdoor use — including pools, shrubs, trees — amounts to less than 7%. Total urban use — showers, washers, business landscaping, golf courses, ball fields — account for just 20% of human water consumption.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5833"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Agriculture slurps up 80%, much of it in the semiarid San Joaquin Valley, where growers increasingly have been planting thirsty nut orchards, mainly for profitable export overseas.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5838"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>But while agriculture devours 80% of the developed water, it accounts for only 2% of the state’s gross product, according to the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5839"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Last year, as Californians dealt with the fourth year of drought, growers planted an additional 60,000 acres of almonds, mostly in the San Joaquin Valley, according to state agriculture officials.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5840"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>That was a 6% increase in almond acreage over the previous year, bringing the total to 1.1 million acres. That’s nearly double the number of almond orchards that existed 12 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5841"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Unlike carrot, tomato and other vegetable plants, nut and fruit trees cannot be temporarily fallowed during dry years.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5842"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>So when government reduces water deliveries through the giant aqueducts, farmers feel compelled to drill deeper wells, further draining aquifers. The result is that land in much of the San Joaquin Valley has been sinking, damaging roads and canals and drying up water supplies for hardscrabble local communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5843"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>The state lists 21 “critically overdrafted” water basins, covering practically the entire San Joaquin Valley. The Paso Robles area and Oxnard also are on the list.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5844"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>In 2014, Brown signed landmark groundwater management legislation — California’s first. But it basically punted the chore of refereeing water use to local agencies. And the rules won’t fully take effect for another generation.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5845"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Back to almonds. Not all of them are equally thirsty. It depends on their location.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5846"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>In the wetter Sacramento Valley — the northern part of the Central Valley — one acre of these nuts requires 2.4 acre-feet of irrigation water annually, according to the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. In most of the San Joaquin Valley, they need 3.4 acre-feet. But in the lower valley, they gobble up 4 acre-feet.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5847"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Roughly 85% are in the parched San Joaquin. Do the math: Those additional 60,000 acres of almonds require more than 200,000 acre-feet of water per year, enough for 400,000 households.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5848"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Making this really simple, one gallon of water is generally needed to grow one almond.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5849"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Yes, the water produces food, but most of it isn’t for us. It provides snacks for other countries, primarily in Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5850"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>“I believe farmers should grow whatever they want,” Brown told me last year.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5851"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Never mind that government regulates practically all other land use. A property owner can’t just willy-nilly build an apartment house, develop a mall or carve out a dump.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5852"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Brown did, however, pester farmers a little in his executive order.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5853"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Irrigation districts serving at least 25,000 acres currently are required to develop drought management plans and monitor groundwater levels, reporting the numbers to Sacramento. The governor’s new edict lowers the acreage threshold to 10,000, covering an additional 1 million acres of farmland.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5854"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>But there’s no enforcement of the current regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5855"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>“There should be,” says Mark Cowin, director of the state Department of Water Resources. He says enforcement legislation will be proposed by next year.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5856"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>“What we’re trying to do is see how efficiently agriculture uses water,” Cowin says. “We’re staying away from mandating land use and types of agriculture.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5857"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>But agriculture is going to be constrained anyway eventually — by nature and by groundwater regulations — predicts one expert.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5858"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>“There’s not enough water,” says Jay Lund, director of the UC Davis watershed center. “It’s inevitable.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5859"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Lund says less water will be exported south from the deteriorating Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Groundwater is being depleted and contaminated. Seas will rise because of climate change, pushing more saltwater inland. Less snow will fall in the Sierra. San Joaquin Valley soil will become more toxic because of irrigation runoff and imported salty water. And urbanization will eat up cropland.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5860"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>He says up to 2 million of the San Joaquin Valley’s 5 million irrigated acres will need to be fallowed.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5861"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>“That looks right to me,” Cowin says.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5862"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Not hosing down your driveway won’t amount to a hill of beans.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5863"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'><a href="mailto:george.skelton@latimes.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:#4591B8;text-decoration:none'>george.skelton@latimes.com</span></a></span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5866"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Follow <a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/twitter.com/LATimesSkelton" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5868"><span style='color:#4591B8;text-decoration:none'>@LATimesSkelton</span></a> on Twitter</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5869"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:13.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5870"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5242"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463065397814_5252"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>