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From: Right to Water <right-to-water@iatp.org>
To: dianne@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca
Subject: RE: water: aquifers
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:17:27 -0500
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Right to Water (right-to-water@iatp.org)    Posted: 05/29/2001  By  ntprice@juno.com	
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I have been reading the discussions on this list and would like to raise
the question
of water in the underground aquifer system. Here in California, large
agricultural
firms are buying land over these deep water reservoirs and then claiming
the "water rights"
so as to sell on the open market using, of course, the publicly created
and funded
water distribution system.

Discussion of the world's water resources must begin to look at the
problem
of not just surface or subsurface and well water issues, but the
fundamental
issue of who owns and therefore controls the vast volume of water in the
deeper
water lenses and aquifers. In California, at least, water law pertaining
to aquifers is 
not developed and therefore leaves open the current exploitation through
land purchase
and water contracts of the aquifer resources. Currently, there is a
lawsuit against Cadiz, Inc.,
a British corporation in California's Central Valley, that is buying such
land and contracting for the 
sale of  aquifer water to the Los Angeles metropolitan area. 

Before we know it, private business will own the land and lay claim to
these vast
water resources to sell to the highest bider.

Nancy Price
Alliance for Democracy
http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org
ntprice@juno.com

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