"Carmel River Bed Dry" © 1998 Kira Carillo Corser
| The premise of the water plan and the CALFED Program is that new water
development is needed to meet the demand of California's growing population, to ensure the
reliability of existing water supplies, and to restore aquatic ecosystems already degraded
by the state's existing dams. However, the push for new and enlarged dams is based on the assumption that California will continue to use water as it has done in the past, and fails to consider any change in how we use our existing supplies. More efficient use and management of our existing water supplies and significant investments in water reclamation and conservation can substantially reduce, if not eliminate, the need to build more dams and develop new surface water supplies over the next 20 to 30 years. - "RIVERS AT RISK", 1998 |
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