What it’ll take to change water practices

Yes I know I should probably stay out of the fray. This aquifer we are talking about is not just under a small portion of Butte County but from the Paradise hills to the Sacramento River; from below the Sutter Buttes to the Hogsback in Tehama County. You put a straw in here and the effects are felt and seen over there.

I do realize that if I were the large farmers-corporations I would look to hedge my bets and quietly form a district I-WE could control before the county or state does the controlling. If controlled by other than the large land holders; monitoring and or meters will be mandated and the old school of “it is my water and I will do what I want with it” will be gone.

I feel the time has come for drip and micro-sprinklers with moisture meters; not just turn on the pump and let it run and piss on those whose well runs dry. The Israelis have done exceptional work with little water in a desert to feed their people. Yet we let the water run and do nothing to save a precious commodity.

When they are forced to conserve either by price or government; this is when the watering practices will change the big boys.

— Chuck Jasper, Corning