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Disbelief: Should State Limit Small Water Agencies?
Disbelief: Should State Limit Small Water Agencies?
Disbelief: Should State Limit Small Water Agencies?
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WATER MANAGEMENT
Should
state limit
small water
agencies?
Senate bill would
make it more difficult
to add to the states
7,500-plus systems
By Paul Rogers
progers@bayareanewsgroup.com
Californias drought has revealed that when it comes to water, not every community is equal.
Large urban areas, from the
Bay Area to Los Angeles, asked
residents to conserve, raised
rates to buy water from other
places and generally have gotten by without much inconvenience, other than brown lawns
and shorter showers.
But communities served by
smaller systems, from farm towns
to forest hamlets often lacking money, expertise and modern equipment have struggled
and, in some cases, nearly run out
of water entirely.
Now, a bill by a Bay Area state
lawmaker aims to slow the spread
of little mom and pop water providers by making it very difficult
to create new ones.
The problem, says state Sen.
Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, is
that California has 7,642 water
systems. Some serve only campgrounds, prisons or schools. Of
the ones in communities with
full-time residents, 63 percent
have 200 or fewer connections.
Many have no permanent employees. Some own only one well
DIVIDED AMERICA
Gun views
create friction
even as fewer
bear arms
We broke every
record in the
regular season and
postseason and
then to lose the
championship, its
the worst way to
feel .... Im holding
back tears.
By Matt Sedensky
The Associated Press
Look anywhere in
this nation born of a bloody revolution of musket fire, and youre
likely to find sharp disagreement
over guns.
Democrats war with Republicans; small towns are pitted
against cities. Women and men
are at odds, as are blacks and
whites and old and young. North
clashes with South, East with
West.
The current gun debate is
more polarized and sour than any
time before in American history,
said Adam Winkler, a constitutional law professor at UCLA and
author of the 2011 book, Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right
to Bear Arms in America.
Still numb from the latest mass
shooting, in Orlando, its easy to
imagine that guns have always divided us this way. But a close look
at survey data over decades shows
they havent.
There was a time when most
citizens favored banning handguns, the chief gun lobbyists supported firearm restrictions, and
courts hadnt yet interpreted the
Second Amendment as guaranteeing a personal right to bear
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Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry sits on the bench during the fourth quarter of Game 7of the
NBA Finals between the Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Oakland on Sunday. The Cavaliers won
93-89, becoming the first team to win the NBA title after trailing 3-1and bringing Cleveland its first pro
sports title of any kind in the last 52years.
burn so hot that they spew little if any smoke, making them
environmentally friendly.
Environmentalists contend the burners undercut an
emergency order by Gov. Jerry
Brown considered a global
leader in the fight against climate change who called for
sending the trees to biomass
SCOTT SMITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
plants and converting them
Firefighters with the California
into energy.
Chief Ken Pimlott, who Department of Forestry and Fire
manages the states response Protection remove dead trees near
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