{"id":29642,"date":"2012-05-14T10:16:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T17:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=29642"},"modified":"2012-05-16T12:54:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T19:54:53","slug":"californias-new-water-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/05\/14\/californias-new-water-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s New Water Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-051412\/2012_05_14_scow.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-051412\/2012_05_14_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/sacramento_river.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The history of Los Angeles is intimately tied to its struggle for water resources. As far back as the late 1800s, the great California Water Wars as they were called, pitted LA\u2019s ruling elite against Owens Valley farmers and residents, whose water supplies were diverted into the city via an aqueduct. The story of that water acquisition is one of \u201clies, chicanery and subterfuge\u201d and even an armed rebellion in 1924. After drying up Owens Valley, the city attempted to divert water from nearby Mono Lake but lost its bid to legal challenges. <\/p>\n<p>LA has always needed more water than it produced and the historic water wars continue to this day. Activists are drawing attention to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, a $50+ billion plan to tap the Sacramento River. Managed by the Metropolitan Water District (MWD), the tax payer and rate payer funded plan involves the construction of a pipeline whose profits will ultimately be reaped by MWD. Environmentalists contend that the Sacramento Bay Delta has delicate salmon populations that would be devastated by the project. They also contend that the money could be better spent on water conservation efforts. Food and Water Watch is currently proposing that Californians vote on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan which they have dubbed the \u201cBillion Dollar Covert Pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Adam Scow, Campaigns Director at Food &#038; Water Watch California <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\">www.foodandwaterwatch.org<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of Los Angeles is intimately tied to its struggle for water resources. As far back as the late 1800s, the great California Water Wars as they were called, pitted LA\u2019s ruling elite against Owens Valley farmers and residents, whose water supplies were diverted into the city via an aqueduct. The story of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}