To: Nancy Pelosi, Congressperson., Barbara Boxer, George Miller, Congressman, The California State House, The California State Senate, and Governor Gavin Newsom
Save the California Delta
Stop the huge corporate agribusinesses from creating a new peripheral canal to divert fresh water from the California Delta. This is an end-run to avoid the California citizen’s desires: the voters have already rejected previous efforts to destroy the Delta. Now agribusiness is lobbying the California legislature to create a new peripheral canal without concern for the wishes of Californians, the quality of the water, the survival of Delta farmers, the health of the fisheries, and the enjoyment of the waterways.
Why is this important?
Removing fresh water from the Delta will cause a collapse of the fisheries, destroy Delta farmland, degrade the drinking water of Bay Area residents, create a polluted mess for boaters, waterskiers and other water enthusiasts.
This is a water grab by special interests in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. Now they want the legislature to do what the people rejected at the polls.
Help us save the California Delta - the largest freshwater estuary West of the Mississippi, critical to the Northern California environment (the most important biological asset on the west coast, home to 750 species of fish, birds and other animals), recreation, local Delta farmers and the Delta economy.
Water exports have increasingly affected Delta water quality, resulting in a salmon fishery closure in 2008/2009 with significant economic losses, all to benefit the desert
farmland's big agribusiness millionaires.
I live on the Delta part time and love it - it's my backyard. Current plans will cause the demise of salmon and other fish and fowl and will harm the Delta economy and the health and quality of Delta water.
That's why I signed a petition to Governor Jerry Brown the entire California legislature; Senators Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein; Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives; Bay Area Congressman George Miller; and President Barack Obama.
This is a water grab by special interests in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. Now they want the legislature to do what the people rejected at the polls.
Help us save the California Delta - the largest freshwater estuary West of the Mississippi, critical to the Northern California environment (the most important biological asset on the west coast, home to 750 species of fish, birds and other animals), recreation, local Delta farmers and the Delta economy.
Water exports have increasingly affected Delta water quality, resulting in a salmon fishery closure in 2008/2009 with significant economic losses, all to benefit the desert
farmland's big agribusiness millionaires.
I live on the Delta part time and love it - it's my backyard. Current plans will cause the demise of salmon and other fish and fowl and will harm the Delta economy and the health and quality of Delta water.
That's why I signed a petition to Governor Jerry Brown the entire California legislature; Senators Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein; Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives; Bay Area Congressman George Miller; and President Barack Obama.