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Please read the article Louis posted. It's very important and not just because I live in NorCal. Then, take a look google maps and search for "Antioch, ca". then expand it out and you'll see the Delta as it proceeds west to San Francisco Bay and east, south and north to the Sacramento River and San Joaquin Rivers. They want to take the water from *north* of the delta and dig two tunnels to *south* of the Delta so that the fresh mountain water that feeds the Sacramento River *bypasses* the Delta and is allowed to flow, essentially into the San Joaquin River. Ever single plan involved or ever proposed would increase, not decrease the salinity by sea water intrusion from the Bay into the Delta. The underlying long range reason for this has to do with SoCal agricultural and industrial interests wanting to steal the water from better hydraulically endowed NorCal. The Delta is already threatened, badly, from vast tracts, 10s of thousands of acres of housing developments all along the water way during the pre-2006 building boom. So far even the people of SoCal understand what's going on and have defeated every attempt to expand the state and federal water projects designed to ship water south. I hope it stays that way and the state can deal with better ways of handling our water resources such as banning the growing of rice and cotton in the State which is simply insane given how much they use of our water. David _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
