Posted on 01/16/2023 5:27:12 PM PST by grundle
While the brilliant people of Israel have built enough desalination plants to end their water shortages, and the country pays only 40 cents per cubic meter for as much water as people want, all in a densely populated country which is a desert with perpetual drought, the idiotic people of California have chosen to reject desalination in favor of continued water shortages.
But that doesn’t mean that California doesn’t have a plan for its water.
California is planning to remove all of the racism from its water. This is the text of their plan:
https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/board_info/agendas/2023/jan/011823_4
STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD
BOARD MEETING SESSION – EXECUTIVE OFFICE
JANUARY 18, 2023
ITEM 4
SUBJECT
RACIAL EQUITY ACTION PLAN.
DISCUSSION
The Racial Equity Action Plan is a compilation of goals, actions, and metrics intended to advance the State Water Board’s efforts to create a future where we equitably preserve, enhance, and restore California’s water resources and drinking water for all Californians, regardless of race, and where race is not a predictor of professional outcomes for Water Boards employees.
On August 18, 2020, State Water Board staff presented an informational item to the State Water Board on a framework for addressing racial equity. The State Water Board acknowledged the historic effects of institutional racism that must be confronted throughout government and directed staff to develop a priority plan of action.
In fall 2020, State Water Board’s Executive Director, Eileen Sobeck, convened a Water Boards Racial Equity Team with the purpose of advancing racial equity both for the communities that the Water Boards serve, and internally within the organization. The Water Boards Racial Equity Team is comprised of Water Boards staff representing all levels of the organization and includes support staff, engineers, scientists, technologists, and executives. The Racial Equity Team has been tasked with three major priorities: 1) establish a foundation of internal and external engagement that values listening and collaboration to drive action; 2) draft a resolution on racial equity to be considered for adoption by the State Water Board and leveraged by the nine Regional Water Boards to adopt their own resolutions; and 3) develop racial equity strategies and action plans to drive efforts for the coming years.
The Water Boards reached a major milestone on November 16, 2021, when the State Water Board adopted the Racial Equity Resolution, “Condemning Racism, Xenophobia, Bigotry, and Racial Injustice and Strengthening Commitment to Racial Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Access, and Anti-Racism” (Resolution No. 2021-0050). The Resolution directs staff to develop a plan of action to advance racial equity within the Water Boards.
In March 2022, the Water Boards Racial Equity Team began working with a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant to articulate a vision and strategic directions that serve as the framework for our action planning.
Throughout spring 2022, Water Boards staff, community partners, tribes, and communities impacted by racial inequities began to identify draft actions to incorporate into a Racial Equity Action Plan. In April 2022, the Water Boards began soliciting requests for government-to-government tribal consultations. And in May 2022, community partners and State Water Board management and staff came together for visioning and strategizing sessions, as well as a series of action planning workshops.
The Water Boards Racial Equity Team compiled draft actions through feedback from members of the public, tribes, and Water Boards staff and leadership and partnered with community organizations to host four public workshops in July 2022 to present the draft action ideas. The Racial Equity Team incorporated feedback received during the July 2022 workshops and Water Boards staff and released the draft for public comment on September 23, 2022.
On October 19, 2022, the Racial Equity Team presented the draft Racial Equity Action Plan at a State Water Board workshop. That version of the draft action plan was posted online for public review and comment on September 23, 2022, and comments were accepted through October 24, 2022. The Water Boards Racial Equity Team incorporated resulting feedback and worked with leadership from State Water Board Divisions and Offices to finalize the draft.
The State Water Board will not take action to approve or deny the Racial Equity Action Plan, which was designed to be a living document that is updated periodically through Board and community engagement. California Native American tribes can continue to request government-to-government consultations to provide feedback and guidance on this work on an ongoing basis. Other interested parties may still provide general comments about the Water Boards’ racial equity work by emailing
racialequity@waterboards.ca.gov. Although this is an action plan for the State Water Board, the Regional Water Boards have strongly supported the State Water Board’s racial equity efforts and may leverage this plan to inform their own racial equity work, as they have the State Water Board’s Racial Equity Resolution.
POLICY ISSUE
This is an informational item to present the 2023-2025 Racial Equity Action Plan. The State Water Board will not approve or deny the Racial Equity Action Plan. However, staff will update the Board on its implementation at least annually.
FISCAL IMPACT
No additional fiscal impact to currently budgeted program resources.
REGIONAL BOARD IMPACT
The State Water Board will not take action at this public meeting; there is no Regional
Water Board impact at this time.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
The State Water Board will not take action at this public meeting; there is no staff recommendation at this time.
They are idiots. And the people that vote for them are useful idiots.
So, they don’t actually have a plan, but they put together a politburo consisting of obese apparatchiks with no skills to eat food and make woke policy.
But lets not mention that flooding the country with illegals uses up water that should be reserved for U.S. Citizens.
Heck yeah they have a plan. Their plan is to get tax dollars off your table and put it on theirs. CA is really great at federal extortion.
I call it taxation without representation.
IMHO, CA is a failed state....beyond recovery.
It, and its puke leadership, will try to bring down the rest of the country with it...IF we let em.
The voter fraud in California is used as the prototype for the entire nation. They called the election for Greasy NewSCUM before the polls closed! The people of CA would love to get the POS out of office. People loathe the corrupt POS and his, likewise, corrupt POS Aunt Vodka Nanzi.
If these people were in charge in the 1850’s, there would still be gold laying on top of the ground.
How much more water do you need when your bong is full?
California race-baiters are desperately searching for racism where racism doesn’t exist:
“Our farmers are diverse, too. Although California has just 2.9 percent of all the farms in America, we are home to 14.6 percent of the nation’s “principal farm operators” whose origins are Hispanic/Latino/Spanish. The same goes for 35.1 percent of Asian farmers, 21.9 percent of Native Americans/Alaskan Natives and 6.4 percent of farmers claiming more than one race, as well as 4.9 percent of female principal farm operators
https://plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov/wordpress/?p=10952
2019 data:
For the first time, the agriculture census asked farmers or ranchers if they had served in the military. In California, 12,113 reported they had served, representing almost 10 percent of the state’s 124,405 producers. USDA collected data on up to four producers per farm or ranch.
https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2019/04/18/agricultural-census-provides-snapshot-of-california-farms/
2011 figures:
FSA reserves a portion of its direct and guaranteed loan funds each year for eligible socially disadvantaged participants....In California, more than half of the loans FSA approved or 51.9 percent, were to minority or socially disadvantaged applicants this year, according to Dolcini. FSA’s total California loan activity during Fiscal Year 2011 exceeded $119 million, with $53.4 million of those dollars reaching socially disadvantaged borrowers who applied and qualified for direct and guaranteed loans.
https://www.farmprogress.com/government/majority-california-s-fsa-loans-go-minority-farmers
“There are an estimated 4,000 Latino growers in California, including 500 in Watsonville....One-third of the area’s strawberry growers are Latinos....In the Fresno area, some 1,000 Southeast Asian farmers lease farm land for $300 an acre.
https://www.blackfarmers.org/blog/minority-farmers
“According to the Census, between 1997 and 2002 California lost 12 percent of its farms of between one and fifty acres in size, which now represent 62 percent of the state’s total number of farms. Of this percentage, 18.3 percent are operated by minorities; 71 percent of African American, Latino and Pacific Islander operated farms are between one and fifty acres, while 64 percent of Asians and 63 percent of Native Americans, and19.4 percent of women operators in California operate farms of between one and fifty acres.
https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/0213380-california-small-farm-program-2501-project.html#:~:text=Of%20this%20percentage%2C%2018.3%20percent%20are%20operated%20by,operate%20farms%20of%20between%20one%20and%20fifty%20acres.
“While the brilliant people of Israel have built enough desalination plants to end their water shortages, and the country pays only 40 cents per cubic meter for as much water as people want”
For those wondering, a cubic meter is about 250 gallons. So 40 cents per cubic meter comes out to about 1 cent for every 6 gallons. A typical household in the US uses 3000 gallons per month, so their additional water cost due to desalination would be about $5.00/month (as opposed to ‘free’ water coming from a lake or river...but then that needs to be treated). So, for $5.00/month, the people in Israel no longer have to put up with the constant bitching of elected leaders demanding less water usage, no car washing, toilets that don’t flush, etc.
As to California, they recently had a proposal to build a very large desalination plant in the Los Angeles area (as I remember). The Coastal Commission UNANIMOUSLY REJECTED the plant, since it would use energy to get the salt out of the water, and therefore destroy the planet. Obviously not much energy, if the total bill for the water would be $5/month per household.
This is about as clear of an example as possible as to why the Democrats need to be TOTALLY DESTROYED as a political entity, and not ‘worked with’ in a ‘bipartisan manner’.
94% of the water that falls in California goes to the ocean.
When they do store some water the democrats will empty the reservoirs then declare a drought.
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