While the California legislature and the Governator play the superlatives game; beaming smiles and back pats – sheathing their weapons temporarily while gushing meaningless platitudes about how hard it was to come to consensus, requiring real cleverness to disguise their pet projects and ritual looting of the state’s treasury…

… the opposition has had time to read the resulting legislation, and as expected, are displeased.

The Director of the Sierra Club mourns openly via the Huffington Post …

And much of the water that is delivered, at a cost of billions of dollars and after being stored in snow and ice, is used to grow alfalfa in the desert or allowed to drip out of leaky urban plumbing systems. Huge quantities are recklessly contaminated with various pesticides and toxic wastes, inadequately treated at still billions in further expense, and then delivered to consumers who are understandably anxious about its quality — leading them to purchase bottled water (the manufacture of which wastes a gallon of water for every quart produced).

“Huge quantities of contaminated water” assures brownlining will enjoy a robust future, largely due to my intensive lobbying among members of both parties. I suppose I’ve got my “30 pieces of Silver” but the farming community still holds all the cards.

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