{"id":30574,"date":"2012-08-06T09:43:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=30574"},"modified":"2012-08-06T09:43:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:43:03","slug":"activists-ramp-up-opposition-to-california-water-pipeline-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/08\/06\/activists-ramp-up-opposition-to-california-water-pipeline-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists Ramp Up Opposition to California Water Pipeline Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080612\/2012_08_06_water_project.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080612\/2012_08_06_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/california_water_project.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>Governor Jerry Brown&#8217;s proposed $23 billion water tunnel is being called a corporate water-grab scheme by environmental and consumer advocacy groups organizing to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>The Peripheral Tunnels project announced this month will divert water from the Sacramento river into two underground tunnels underneath the Sacramento Delta to a pumping facility 37 miles to the south. The water would eventually be used on San Joaquin Valley farms and in Southern Californian cities, including Los Angeles.  Construction is expected to begin in 2017 with an estimated price tag of $14 billion dollars to be paid by the state\u2019s two largest water districts, the Metropolitan Water district in L.A. and the Westlands Water District in Fresno.  Californian taxpayers will cover the remaining $9 billion allocated for the new tunnels\u2019 operation and wetland restoration around the Sacramento Delta.<\/p>\n<p>The project has drawn the ire of California environmentalists who fear that the plan will only hasten the Delta\u2019s collapse. More diversions of freshwater from the ecosystem, they say, will increase the estuary\u2019s salinity and destroy already diminished fish populations. The consumer advocacy group Food and Water Watch says their independent economic analysis shows L.A. rate payers will likely be hit with rate hikes to cover the project&#8217;s cost.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUESTS: Brenna Norton, Organizer with Food &#038; Water Watch and Conner Everts, Executive Director of Southern California Watershed Alliance and Co-chair of the Desal Response Group<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\/californi\">www.foodandwaterwatch.org\/californi<\/a>a for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Jerry Brown&#8217;s proposed $23 billion water tunnel is being called a corporate water-grab scheme by environmental and consumer advocacy groups organizing to stop it. The Peripheral Tunnels project announced this month will divert water from the Sacramento river into two underground tunnels underneath the Sacramento Delta to a pumping facility 37 miles to the [&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-30574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30574","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=30574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}