California Dust Bowl-Turn the Water ON!

You are Cordially Invited to Attend

A Conference on the

“California Water Crisis - Government

Created - Can We the People Solve it?”

Sunday, April 25, 2010 – 2:00 PM

Irvine Valley College

Performing Arts Center

5500 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, CA 92618

Moderator: Martha Montelongo, (martha@marthamontelongo.com) - Radio Host - CRN Digital Talk Radio

Panelists include:

Jim Verboon: Central Valley Walnut Farmer, former Farm Bureau Water Committee Chairman, past Chairman State Farm

Bureau Natural Resources Committee with extensive knowledge of Water issues pertaining to the CA Delta.

Larry Easterling: Pistachio Farmer in the State Water District in the Central Valley.

Piedad Ayala: Farms, operates a large custom farming operation and farm labor operation in the Central Valley.

Allen Ishida: Tulare County Supervisor, runs a 3rd generation Family Farming operation in Tulare County.

Paul Sihota: Operates a family farming and trucking company on the Westside of the Central Valley.

Russell Waymire: Co-Chaired local Farm Bureau Water Committee in Kings County.

ECOLOGICAL PRIMITIVISTS SEEK TO REVERT CALIFORNIA BACK TO AN

18TH CENTURY DESERT - AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS AN ACCOMPLICE!

**Cutting off the Water Supply to People of Central California

**Redirecting Water to the Ocean for the Sake of Declining Fish Species

**Decimating California’s Central Valley Agriculture and Food Supply for California and America

**Causing the Loss of Thousands of Jobs in California – Unemployment at 40% in Some Areas

**Imposing Hardship on Hundreds of Thousands of California Residents

**Will Contribute to Worldwide Food Shortages

**Adversely Affecting Drinking Water Source for 25 Million People in So. California

Why the crisis, how bad is the crisis, and what can we do about it?

Sponsored by: California Republican Assembly (CRA) & CRN Digital Talk Radio

Please RSVP to: Linda Barnes at: BARNESLK@aol.com or (949) 533-3277

Don dreenk de water

I was at the synagogue this evening talking to the wife of a guest speaker from Uganda. I asked her about water quality in her country, and she said that her village has a well in the center and everybody has to carry water from the well to the houses. The water quality is good in the summer, but when it rains the water tends to make people sick if it is not boiled.

Then we got onto the subject of American water quality. We discussed the chemicals in water here, chiefly chlorine. I said that I had always been told that a goldfish dies if you place it directly into tap water. I remember my parents telling me that as a child. And I remember the deeply unsettling feeling I had at the time. Do you mean to tell me the water you have been giving me to drink my whole life can kill a GOLDFISH????!!!!! As soon as I got out on my own as an adult I began to purchased bottled water and later got a filtering system.

It so happens I bought a new filter for our house at Costco last weekend. The last time the plumber was here replacing the filters on our reverse osmosis system I asked him about replacing the filtering membrane. He said that it might be better to buy an entirely new system from Costco and replace all of the parts, including the storage tank. So I'm almost ready to call him. I need to buy a new kitchen faucet because that broke recently. When I have all the parts I will call and schedule an appointment.

I learned a few months ago that the wife of one of my husband's colleagues came down with lymphoma. She is about 10 years younger than I am. She had already gone through chemo by the time I heard about it in the fall and was about to start radiation. She said after her diagnosis they completely changed their lifestyle. Including switching from drinking tap water to drinking bottled or filtered water. She also moved away from her home that was very near a freeway to one closer to the ocean and clean air.

I water my plants with water from the reverse osmosis system and they are a lot healthier than the plants used to be. I really don't think it is my imagination.