{"id":254,"date":"2013-04-17T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T17:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/?p=254"},"modified":"2013-04-18T15:20:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T22:20:04","slug":"governor-browns-twin-tunnels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/archives\/254","title":{"rendered":"Governor Brown&#8217;s  35 mile &#8220;twin tunnels&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s bad enough we live at the other end of California buying overpriced truckloads of water to supplement our reservoir from the Goliath: Metropolitan Water District who themselves sucked Owen Valley dry&#8230;now we (David) are going to get taxed \u00a0for sucking the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta dry. \u00a0Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder who&#8217;s going to pay for it? Yup. \u00a0You and me. \u00a0That&#8217;s who. \u00a0Here are the facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>14 billion price tag for an already broke state<\/li>\n<li>Twin tunnels will eventually dry up the Delta and all environmental treasures lost forever<\/li>\n<li>California has hundreds of fault-lines<\/li>\n<li>Metropolitan Water District continues as a feudal water <!--more-->overlord<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah. \u00a0That&#8217;s working for us&#8230;and our children&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>So what if it&#8217;s underneath everybody, it&#8217;s right through fault-lines and could suffer catastrophic disasters here in the Golden State which other places with tunneled fresh water doesn&#8217;t have. \u00a0The existing plumbing system is aging&#8230;and so am I. \u00a0So is Brown. \u00a0I am afraid for us all. \u00a0I know there are more people and the resources are literally drying up. \u00a0I can&#8217;t see how this will help the Delta. \u00a0Just the existing waterlords and the agriculture families who get 80% of fresh drinking water. \u00a0I also know they get an agricultural discount we civilians don&#8217;t. \u00a0WTF?!!<\/p>\n<p>God help us.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>J<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-263\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-263\" href=\"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/archives\/254\/olympus-digital-camera-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-263\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P10100421-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P10100421-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P10100421-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lower McCloud Falls, diverted into Shasta Lake, north of Sacramento River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/em><em> <\/em><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s bad enough we live at the other end of California buying overpriced truckloads of water to supplement our reservoir from the Goliath: Metropolitan Water District who themselves sucked Owen Valley dry&#8230;now we (David) are going to get taxed \u00a0for sucking the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta dry. \u00a0Hmm. I wonder who&#8217;s going to pay for it? &bull;  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/archives\/254\"> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,11,12,10],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fresh-drinking-water-governor-brown-twin-tunnels","tag-fresh-drinking-water","tag-governor-brown","tag-sacramentodelta-river","tag-twin-tunnels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}