Milt Burgess

“Whiskey Is for Drinking; Water Is for Fighting Over” is historically true, particularly in the Western US. It is usually attributed to Mark Twain, but not confirmed. Now as the drought deepens in the West, the crazy patchwork of agreements, water laws and rights is set to create even more dissention. So what is the […]

 Would increasing the cost of water to the growers significantly raise the price of vegetables for the consumer? Here, in Water Shock, Charlie Reagan is talking about this subject.             “Ironically,” Charlie said, “they could have financed many recycled water projects with a simple increase in the cost of water that […]

The future of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta — an estuary critical to California’s water future -was the subject of a Feb. 27 forum I attended, sponsored by Citizen’s Coordinate for Century 3. Andrew Poat, consultant to the California Resources Agency, and Dennis Cushman, assistant general manager of the San Diego County Water Authority served […]

In all of the coverage on the current drought, agri-business is claiming an end-of-the-world scenario if the Central Valley in California is not capable of supplying all of the vegetables it does now to the rest of the nation. Little or nothing is said about the cotton grown using precious water, irrigated by the State […]