Sucking California Dry | China Wants Our Water

Coming up on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles / 98.7 FM Santa Barbara **Midnight Mondays** Tonight March 4.

"Creator Blessed us with this work, we're all stewards of Mother Earth." -Mathew Leivas Sr. (Chemehuevi)

Next two weeks we have Pat Flanagan's unfiltered and insightful look at water management policies, Biodiversity, and California's OWN 30x30 Mandate. https://www.californianature.ca.gov/

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I am fortunate to work with Pat Flanagan. We have a process together of writing and checking each other’s facts. Since she’s on the board of Morongo Basin Conservation Assn., and a scientist, she has a history with the Cadiz Inc. water marketing scheme and it’s new CEO, Susan Kennedy, former Chief of Staff to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and has followed it all since the beginning.

We recorded two episodes:

1. Water and Power

And

2. Sucking California Dry

The second is about Cadiz primarily but questions California’s commitment to and implementation of the 30X30 Biodiversity policy mandate in light of the water harvesting and marketing.

We compare Cadiz with the enlargement of Pacheco Reservoir by China in anticipation of having water rights and potentially water sales to China and/or elsewhere.

“Water and Power” tackles 10 years of solar development in the desert and its ever expanding water usage profile in addition to a compare and contrast with the Cadiz Inc. operation, examples of encroachment and settler disruption of Indigenous cultural norms and practices.