It matters not whether municipalities conserve water or not within the context of this discussion. Nor does it matter if any "delta conveyance" is built or not. What is the real issue is "sustainability". Exporting ever more water from the Bay/Delta ecosystem is NOT sustainable no matter how much water is conserved in municipal, industrial or Ag. use.

Right now the argument is really about greed and converting a public trust asset into private capital. It is not a sustainable proposition. It is not a rational proposition. Under the "American capitalist system" it is generally OK to "find a need and fill it" and make a profit thus creating jobs and improving the economy.

However when attaining the "need" costs more jobs that it creates or requires huge outlays of taxpayer/ratepayer monies, destroys natural ecosystems and encourages unsustainable growth, it's not capitalism....It's theft and that's exactly what is happening with California's water.

The conversation in this thread is much too rational. Greed is not rational nor is even reasonable or prudent. That is why this whole scheme to turn the Kern Water Bank into an ATM machine for corporate Ag. to farm instead of crops isn't going to be resolved without 30 years worth of lawsuits.

Here's just a few that are working their way through the system. Read through them and you can gain a better understanding of how broken the system is and what it will take to fix it....

http://dev.calsport.org/cspa_files/C...w_links%29.pdf

http://calsport.org/news/cspa-sues-b...cts/#more-1132

http://calsport.org/news/lawsuit-fil...ver/#more-1115

http://calsport.org/news/cspa-coalit...ract-renewals/

http://dev.calsport.org/cspa_files/M...Chronology.pdf

http://dev.calsport.org/kern.cspa.7.3.10.htm

http://dev.calsport.org/publictrust.cspa.9.7.10.htm

Happy reading,

Mike