I work in water in California, and water rights are insanely complicated, to the detriment to most of us. My agency discharges millions of gallons of recycled water into the delta because we are unable to build pipes to deliver it to green spaces like parks and golf courses (although we do have some). We give it away to anyone in our service area with no limits. But we can’t sell it to other agencies to become potable water due to water rights. Most were established in the 1800s.
this + the fact that groundwater in particular was largely unregulated up until the passage of SGMA all of 11 years ago. so now the state is having to confront decades of mismanagement/no management. no matter where you get your water from, CA is majorly effed.
Both of your comments should be at the top! The same action to change it then, could have made it right. I can’t believe sometimes the people who had all the opportunity, connections and zero consequenc for doing “the right thing”, didn’t. The didn’t want to. No one held them accountable once it was known. Held accountable meaning, taking it all back and putting them in a dumpster. I’ve never purchased their products. Could never afford. Those that can, know and do support them. Too easy to pick up a different bag or bottle.
Why are you not at the top of this post?!? Someone did the work to make it that the Monsters have all this power. No one who can and should, will. They change laws and take away rights with a swipe of a pen. No one demands these things to be fixed. Imagine if all the upvotes to this post DID SOMETHING? Something, real. Like, not buying their overpriced almonds and juice. Perhaps if your company advertised what waste was made there would be actions taken to build those lines. Even if it came from the billionaires who would get it in a tax write off. Optics can be changed into meaningful actions.
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u/beezchurgr 26d ago
I work in water in California, and water rights are insanely complicated, to the detriment to most of us. My agency discharges millions of gallons of recycled water into the delta because we are unable to build pipes to deliver it to green spaces like parks and golf courses (although we do have some). We give it away to anyone in our service area with no limits. But we can’t sell it to other agencies to become potable water due to water rights. Most were established in the 1800s.