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We the undersigned, endorse the following petition:
Oppose the Cadiz Water Project!
Target: Phillip J. Pace Chairman Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Sponsor:
NPCA org
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The Cadiz Project Was Rejected.
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.>MOST RECENT 25 of 4,518 SIGNATURES | | |
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City |
Why is it important to protect the desert ecosystem? |
How are national parks important in your life? |
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11:12 am PDT, Oct 23 |
Charles Preston |
Houston |
enviorment, money, hum... which one is the most important? if we don't have an healthy enviorment we have ho where to spend our money. Think about it. |
A great place to get away from the urban enviorment that we as humans feels is necessity, a wonderful place where the enviorment can't be touch nor damaged and to protect the natrual habitat that lives within that enviorment, and for the humans who cares to enjoy. |
| 4,517 |
7:37 pm PDT, Oct 22 |
Gaybra Raymond |
Reynoldsburg |
Every ecosystem plays an important role in the way that our earth is able to remain at temperatures that can sustain life! |
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| 4,516 |
4:52 pm PDT, Oct 22 |
Juliana Mujica |
New Orleans |
whoever loves LIFE knows why |
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| 4,515 |
4:19 pm PDT, Oct 22 |
philip sullivan |
Woodstock |
Mining the water table for commercial purposes will soon destroy the viability of the Mojave desert for all life, especially endangerd rare species and once more allow "private enterprise" to plunder the public land and resources. Turning over public wealth to exploitation by profit-motivated corporations is sheer idiotic madness, or else possibly corruption! |
To protect the flora and fauna, the scenic beauty, for recreation and scientific study, and just knowing they are there and not desicrated and spoiled by greedy, corrupting , profiteers who care for nothing but money and the power and pleasure they get from amassing more and more of it at the public expense. |
| 4,514 |
2:25 pm PDT, Oct 22 |
Karen Ringen |
Sleepy Hollow |
They are the most fragile and most misunderstood of all U.S. ecosystems. They need help. |
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| 4,513 |
11:04 am PDT, Oct 22 |
Kiersten Moore |
Washington |
Because, like all ecosystems, it has far reaching effects which we cannot fully understand. California is scandalously wasteful of its water as it is. Steps need to be taken to establish sustainable usage instead of looking to exploit further resources. |
I've visited national parks throughout my life--they provide a haven from the city, educational and recreational activities. |
| 4,512 |
9:26 am PDT, Oct 22 |
Aspen Massingill |
Wheeling |
It's important to protect all ecosystems. Would these poor animals take water out of your mouths??? Especially because they already live in the desert! |
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| 4,511 |
8:46 am PDT, Oct 22 |
Allen T. Chartier |
Inkster |
Precisely because it is an ecosystem. The desert is not a golf course or a shopping mall, and we certainly don't need any more of those. If we don't protect what little is left, we'll be guilty of causing extinctions, and stealing from our grandchildren. |
National Parks belong to all Americans, not to special interests like oil companies and logging companies. These places were set aside by intelligent men with foresight, and we cannot let a few stupid men with greed steal this from the American people. |
| 4,510 |
6:37 am PDT, Oct 22 |
nancy l. chartier |
Inkster |
Do humans have to suck every last ounce of whatever resource from the planet for our own use? Do we actually plan to have a future with no other species but ourselves because that's certainly where we're headed and I cannot understand why human greed and indifference are allowed to override sane considerations. I also don't understand why we imagine that we have an unlimited supply of clean, potable water. |
Besides the fact that we've visited and loved dozens of national parks, they're some of the last refuges in the country for resources and wildlife that are being trampled out of existence by human greed and exploitation. |
| 4,509 |
9:40 pm PDT, Oct 21 |
Anonymous |
Hallowell |
BECAUSE ALL OF LIFE IS AN INTERDEPENDENT WEB. AND THE MORE STRANDS WE CUT THE MORE PRECARIOUS OUR POSITION BECOMES. |
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| 4,508 |
10:42 am PDT, Oct 21 |
Amy Yates |
Clayton |
because it is. Do you people really need 5,000 reasons to save the desert ecosystem?!? |
I feel they keep animals and plant life safe. |
| 4,507 |
7:14 am PDT, Oct 21 |
Adrianne Cology |
Chagrin falls |
the desert is just another of the earth's natuaral forms, and is beutiful in that sense. If you interfer with it, it affects not just the ecosystem of the desert, but the whole world as it all balances out. And this is saying nothing of all the wildlife we would be destroying |
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| 4,506 |
8:43 pm PDT, Oct 20 |
teresa ryan |
Oswego |
save the water save the earth.if its gone so are people. |
we need are parks |
| 4,505 |
6:13 pm PDT, Oct 20 |
Betty Shipley |
Crystal River |
Have the people on this earth ever heard, "don't fool with mother nature" ?If we disturb the desert ecosystem, can we truly imagine what disasters will happen? We have the entire Pacific Ocean, hasn't anyone heard of desalintion.?Where are our scientists? |
VERY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 4,504 |
11:32 am PDT, Oct 20 |
Jackelyne Weeks |
Lisburn |
If we don't stop this now, we will not be able to reverse the effects. |
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2:10 pm PDT, Oct 19 |
Stephanie Coonce |
Redondo Beach |
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| 4,502 |
10:04 pm PDT, Oct 18 |
Anonymous |
Mendocino |
To protect the ecosystem from a drawdown of the water table which could cause dust storms, starvation for big horn sheep and desert tortoise we need to leave the aquifers in tact. |
National Parks are places of spiritual renewal, to be in touch with pristine wildlands, animals and plants as a respite from urban sterile pavement and edifices. |
| 4,501 |
2:02 pm PDT, Oct 18 |
Anonymous |
Rochester |
It is important to protect the animals and to prevent water shortage and diseases. |
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| 4,500 |
11:19 am PDT, Oct 18 |
Anonymous |
new york |
in order to ensure the health of other animals, plants, the desert, and humans. we need to sto[ killing the earth by depleting all the natural resources |
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| 4,499 |
11:14 am PDT, Oct 18 |
Gregory Ray Boduch |
Brooklyn |
For the same reasons that we protect any other ecosystem. Life! Required? |
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| 4,498 |
9:50 am PDT, Oct 18 |
Karen Sisson |
Titusville |
We are destroying way too much land for money. It has to stop. |
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| 4,497 |
5:25 am PDT, Oct 17 |
Federica Ballerini |
Mendrisio |
I hope that, in the future, kids of all around the world, would still be ables to see those wonderful places. baci dall'Italia |
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| 4,496 |
9:03 pm PDT, Oct 16 |
Sophia Miller |
bainbridge island |
We need to ACT NOW. We are also vulnerable to the earth. |
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| 4,495 |
7:52 pm PDT, Oct 16 |
Leonard E Tolbert Sr |
Corning |
I lived in the Mojave desert for 8 years and the protection of the wildlife is very important. Even the trees and brushes, are important for the welfare of all the animals that live there.
Yes, that would include, the Human animal as well. Without the water and animals, nothing would survive, especially the Human animal. I've known for years there is water below the Mojave desert but to tap it out for Southern California will be a great mistake. Don't they get enough from Northern California (where I live) and areas in between? They are already taking the crop water, and now they want to destroy more!
BUT (with mixed emotions): Will the Cadiz Water Project allow Northern California's Farmers to keep more of the water that would be sent to Southern California? |
National Parks are the makings of God uniting with Mankind to preserve what has been given already.
Mankind should do its' part to keep such wonderful sights preserved for all to see. |
| 4,494 |
7:48 pm PDT, Oct 16 |
tim mock |
flower mound |
it just makes sense, enough said. (amen to georgia's statement! :) ) |
i've always wanted to visit one. |
.>Oppose the Cadiz Water Project!
RE: Proposed Cadiz Groundwater Storage and Dry Year Supply Project
Dear Chairman Pace,
We write to request that you, along with all other member of the board of the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California, withdraw your support from the Cadiz Project. The Project threatens the environment, does not make economic sense and will likely advance private interest at the expense of the public trust.
As currently proposed, the Project will either cost a lot of money or mine
a lot of groundwater. There are risks to Californians and the California environment in either case. Moreover, the threats to federal lands, including the Mojave National Preserve and four designated wilderness areas, make this project one of national concern.
There are three main environmental concerns with the Cadiz Project. First, the project relies on an untested and unreliable monitoring system, the deficiencies of which are the subject of a virtual consensus in the scientific community. The integrity of the proposed system is further undermined by the Project proponents continued adherence to exaggerated estimates of the rate of replenishment for the aquifer. Banking on such an untried monitoring system and assuming an inflated recharge rate leaves the groundwater highly vulnerable to damaging overdraft, creating the likelihood of massive dust emissions from desiccated playas in the Cadiz and Bristol dry lakes and the possibility of drying up mountain springs on which desert bighorn sheep depend.
Second, the Project calls for the creation of 390 acres of freshwater spreading basins, or ponds, which are guaranteed to attract a large new population of ravens to the area. Because ravens prey heavily on juvenile tortoise, attracting large numbers of additional ravens to this arid area spells doom for struggling populations of desert tortoise in designated critical habitat areas that overlap, abut, or are close to the Project site.
Third, the Project calls for construction of intrusive conveyance facilities, including a large pipeline and five-story tall power lines and towers, across a substantial amount of currently untouched desert. Routing the power lines and pipeline through pristine desert is gratuitously destructive of the environment given the presence of two existing alternative routes, a pipeline and a railroad, that would add only minimally to the 35-mile length of the planned conveyance facilities.
Economically, too, the Project is profoundly flawed because it is predicated on the assumption that environmentally disastrous large amounts of native groundwater can be mined from the aquifer. In fact, the environmental limits on the amount of native groundwater that can safely be extracted will render the cost of the water from this project so high that it makes no economic sense for the rate paying public.
In addition, there has been a failure to recognize, let alone analyze, the added energy demands that the Cadiz Project will impose on the MWD's whole water delivery system. Those demands will be real, and they necessarily will have environmental impacts of their own. The failure to address these energy demands and environmental impacts undermines the agency's ability to reasonably approve the Project.
Further, the company that proposed this Project and stands to make an enormous amount of money from it is on the verge of bankruptcy. As their own SEC filings make clear, without the massive infusion of public funds that the Project would provide, Cadiz, Inc., will indeed go bankrupt in short order. We do not believe that relying on such an unreliable and insolvent partner is an appropriate manner to manage the people of California's critical water resources and storage needs. The spectacular disaster that resulted from the deregulation of the electricity system in our state should provide all of us with a cautionary lesson about trusting long-term resource planning and management to the private sector.
For all of these reasons, we respectfully request that you withdraw your support from the Cadiz Project. We applaud Senator Dianne Feinstein for her remarkable leadership on this issue while others have stayed silent, and hope to applaud you too for making the wise policy decision against this project. Our national parks, our wilderness areas, and the public deserve better.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned.
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