When environmental warriors fight… each other

posted at 7:01 pm on October 13, 2012 by Jazz Shaw

Considering a vacation next year? Perhaps a nice weekend at the lake would be nice. If so, maybe you’d like to consider Owens Lake in lovely Inyo County, California. But before you pack up your water skis, fishing pole or kayaks, you should understand that the “Lake” part of “Owens Lake” is something of an optimistic term…….. The aforementioned agreement for dust control and California’s air quality standards are at the heart of the showdown now taking place in Los Angeles. The lake has been essentially a dust bowl for a century now, and keeping all of that dust under control is an expensive proposition. (Letting the water flow back into the lake might solve everything, but it’s already too hard to find clean water in California as it is.) Now there has been a demand to control the dust coming off of an additional stretch of the former lake bed at a cost of nearly half a billion dollars and the DWP is crying fowl. Errr…. foul…… Southern California uses massively more water than they can provide themselves….One of these days the system is going to get too far out of balance to correct……Exit question: If that happens… what do we do with L.A?    To Read More..... 

My Take - I know the answer to that one.  Give L.A. back to Mexico.  If they'll have it.  RK