Article | Summary | Link | Commentary |
|---|---|---|---|
| No, Californians, you won't be fined $1,000 if you shower and do laundry the same day | Claims that it's the water provider who is fined, not the user. | http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article212605634.html | How would a water association differentiate between indoor and outdoor use? If a water association is repeatedly fined, how wll it have funds for correcting water use? |
| Tammy Bruce: California's new water rationing law is a tax in disguise, complete with fines | It's not about the water, it's about raising money for the state coffer. This is a law you will not be able to NOT break. | http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/06/14/tammy-bruce-californias-new-water-rationing-law-is-tax-in-disguise-complete-with-fines.html | |
| Eric Hirst's July, 2018 paper on well monitorint | "All wells need to have a meter on them so we know how much water they are using!" | http://smllibertyroad.com/SMLWP/Here/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-Hirst-Whitepaper.pdf | What we NEED is stream flow monitoring, not well use monitoring. Lawn watering from ground water likely CONTRIBUTES to in-stream flow on low-flow days. |
| The Water Wars of Arizona | Homeowners accuse industrial farming of draining the aquifer. | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/magazine/the-water-wars-of-arizona.html | We are NOT Arizona! Not only do our aquifers seem to recharge with our rains, but ag here in Whatcom county is NOT using more water than what flows down our rivers. |
| Hydrogeologist Ed Kilduff on Hirst Decision | YouTube of Kilduff's talk to Whatcom Business Club, September 2017 | https://youtu.be/twRYAQj1MVk | Explanation of instream flow rules and how they are set. |
| 2019 November list of WRIAS with watershed planning | Only 5 WRIAs have planning groups with some independence from Ecology. | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s8cCJhV5m-6jzp6ZtG8uTHr_71Hh3cZNmiRT-qzVfwg/edit?usp=sharing | ECY's proposed Rule for Nooksack is to limit new wells to 500 gallons per day. They cited other WRIAS for that number. But ALL of the WRIAs listed here show 950 or 3000 gpd. |