Barbara- I personally would not qualify letting your lawn die in Tulare as sacrafice. What is sacrafice, is when growers and farmers have to abandon their livelihood and fallow up to thirty percent of their acres because of SGMA. These are the people who feed this world and people like you take that for granted. Would you be upset if your under achieving CALPERs pension was slashed because it has not met yearly goals, and now stands at $146 billion in the red? Yes you would! So just keep enjoying that fine Tulare municipality water coming from your faucet everytime you turn it on because many do not have that luxury, including those that farm.

The “bogus crap” I was referring to was Farmer Avila’s statement that environmentalists are plotting to take water away from farmers. But I’ll clarify my remarks just for you. Farmers don’t have any less water than other folks around these parts as we’ve all been living with droughts for many years now. Pick up any paper and if one isn’t experiencing living with less water they are living with bad drinking water. I also sided with the Curtimade against Corcoran and stated that Corcoran should be working with Curtimade NOT AGAINST THEM. Perhaps you should try reading something two or three times in order for each and every word to sink in. I may be right and I may be wrong….just like you.

And others believe everything is “big ag.” Sad, I live among people who take for granted where their food supply comes from. In reality, the the average farm in California is less than 380 acres. Far cry from “the big ag” so many loosely untilize to sensationalize their views. The Curtis are not big ag, they are exactly what is California Agriculture. The bogus crap is that I have elevated nitrates in my well water, and I live up in the foothills. Those nitrates sure in the hell did not come from dairies or farming operations on the valley floor.
 

Meanwhile, it’s Ag whose diverting water back to the Delta and away from the Tulare Lake basin, because gawd forbid the largest freshwater lake (and natural reservoir) West of Lake Superior reclaims Boswell’s cotton farms ironically wasting away one acre of subsidence at a time.

The greatest tragedy is that the ‘radical enviros’ are being blamed and not the multimillionaire developers chewing up acre after acre for more induced sprawl. And the sprawl doesn’t even pay for itself because developer fees are so dismally low, forcing the County to cover infrastructure costs and play into the giant Ponzi Scheme of “growth”.