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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:38:59 -0700
Subject: Re: ALERT: CALFED DEAL BROKEN!
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From: michael rozengurt <mrozengurt@juno.com>



Editor
Honorable Senator Feinstein
Honorable Senator Boxer

Senator Diane Feinstein  and other's bill, concerning the increase  of
water withdrawals from Sacramento river - Delta  ecosystem reminds me of
UNSCRUPULOUS bills of  former Communist Party functioners, concerning 
dams  and fishery of river - coastal sea ecosystems .  
	As a results, the Dnieper and Dniester Rivers (NW Black Sea); Don and
Kuban (Sea of Azov); Volga and numerous streams (Caspian Sea}  and their
tributaries and Deltas now nearly dead. The  Amu Darya and Syr Darya, the
only rivers of Central Asia, that  used to empty in Aral Sea, have ceased
to exist as well as as Sea itself.   

This criminal activities of a former Soviet Representatives in Soviet
Parliament  since1950s  in the name of  WATER DEVELOPMENT have  managed
to destroy or eliminate by 1978  thousands of rivers and streams of the
South of  a former USSR. Correspondingly, despoliation of Deltas -
coastal sea ecosystems occurred, and today's hardship for over 130
millions inhabitants :	

Rozengurt, M.A. and M.J. Herz.  1981.  Water, water everywhere but just
so
much to drink. (pp. 65-67)  Oceans.  Sept. 

Rozengurt, M.A.. 1988. Strategic role of water resources development in
the economy of the U.S.S.R.  Prepared for the National Council for Soviet
and East European Research. Washington  D.C.  

Rozengurt, M.A. and J.W. Hedgpeth.  1989.  Impact of Altered River Flow
on
the Ecosystem of the Caspian Sea.  Reviews in Aquatic Sciences Vol. 1, 2,
pp.
337-362.

Rozengurt,  M.A. 1989.  Water policy mismanagement in southern U.S.S.R.: 
the ECOLOGIC AND ECONOMIC IMPACT ON NATURAL RESOURCES OF THE SOUTHERN
SEAS. Prepared for the National Council for Soviet and East European
Research. Washington  D.C.  

Rozengurt, M.A. 1990.  Some Political and Environmental Aspects of the
Demographic Growth and Economic Development of Kazakhstan and Central
Asia Republics.  Prepared for the National Council for Soviet and East
European Research. Washington  D.C.  

Rozengurt, M.A, and I. Haydock, 1991. Effects of Fresh Water Development
on the World's River - Delta -Estuary - Coastal Zone.  In: H.S. Bolton,
Ed. Coastal Wetlands, Coastal Zone '91. ASCE.

Rozengurt, M.A.  1991.  Strategy and ecological and societal results of
extensive resources development in the South of the U.S.S.R.  In
Proceedings:
"The Soviet Union in the Year 2010" . USA IA and Georgetown University,
1992,
Washington, D.C.

Rozengurt, M.A. 1992.  Alteration of freshwater inflows.  In R.C. Shroud
(Ed.),  "Stemming the Tide of Coastal Fish Habitat Loss." 14:73-80.
National Coalition for Marine Conservation, Savannah, GA.

Rozengurt, M.A.  1999.  Running on entropy: the effect of water
diversions on estuary - coastal ecosystems.  In AGU Hydrology Days,
(Ed.H.J. Morel - Seytoux).  Colorado State Univ.

I've followed the CalFed water meetings and talks for more than five
years
now.  I've  testified at hearings.  I've readsThe final CalFed  reports ,
whose basic
deals have made some efforts to:

*  Restore the Bay/Delta and river ecosystems and fish devastated by too
many dams and diversions.
*  Ensure a certain level of water for all uses, including the
environment.
*  Institute significant conservation measures so we don't need to use so
much water.
*  Hold off on new dams or other ecosystem-threatening actions until we
could see what conservation could achieve.

Now, Senator Feinstein has broken the deal.  She's introduced a water
bill that gives the OK for new dams and increased storage in existing
reservoirs.  At the same time, the bill does nothing to ensure that
restoration or environmental goals are met.

What a shock to have all those years of careful work attempting to
balance these needs go down the drain so quickly.  Senator Feinstein has
ignored the public's conscientious participation in this CalFed consensus
process.

Sincerely,

M. Rozengurt, Ph.D., P.H.

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