Editor,
In his Aug. 21 column, “Not a drop to drink,” Mr. Wilson mentioned almond grower as a potential resource waste. He may be correct in his assessment, but he definitely is leaving out the big consumers. Mr. Wilson mentions Mendocino County’s lack of water.
Well, no pun intended, Mendocino County is allowing vineyards to dig wells and drain California aquifers. Not to mention the private golf courses. However, bigger yet, is the out of control unaffordable “affordable housing” on the Peninsula. Many of the cities on the Peninsula are building for tax revenue at the expense of our resources.
Build yet conserve, impossible and unrealistic. Stop building, place a moratorium on residential property, citizens only. It doesn’t make since to cry no affordable housing, as you’re out bid by foreign investors financially backed by their government. Californians will never outbid foreign nationals. Californians are looking for homes in their state only to be sent to the street.
It’s more than water, it’s the total collapse of a once flourishing state. Blame the almonds and drought if that makes you feel good. But don’t write just a minuet portion of the water resource problem.
Bob Belmont
South San Francisco
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Mr. Belmont – thank you for your letter. The biggest resource waste is allowing up to 50% of our water to flow out to sea to save non-existent fish. Until that wasteful enterprise is stopped, your recommendations are most welcome. I, like most people will continue to use our unrestricted share of water.
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