“For more than 10 years, Jason Peltier was a paid advocate for the irrigation-dependent farmers here in the Central Valley of California, several hundred landowners who each year consume more water than the city of Los Angeles does. Now Mr. Peltier works for the Bush administration, and he helps oversee the awarding of new water contracts for the people he used to represent as head of the Central Valley Project Water Users Association.” (New York Times, Friday)
A good way to keep that subsidized water coming
FEE Timely Classic
“California's Man-Made Drought” by Dirk Yandell and Michael C. Paganelli