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Water Issues in the Central Valley of CA |
www.FAMILIESPROTECTINGTHEVALLEY.com |
SHOW APPEARANCES:
MARCH 16, 2014
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DENIS PROSPERI |
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Our Guest: |
Denis Prosperi |
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Central Valley almond farmer |
Denis is
currently Chairmen of the Central California
Almond Growers Association and serves as a board
member of Families Protection the Valley. |
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About Families
Protecting the Valley |
Our organization is committed to preserving the heritage earned
for this Valley by the sweat, tears, and sacrifice of those who
have gone before us. We are honor bound to protect the future
viability of this Valley by standing firm and fighting for the
necessary resources and government policies that will enable
this Valley to continue to flourish. It is imperative that the
citizens of this great country be consistently reminded and made
aware of this Valley’s unique capability to provide a safe and
reliable food supply which is essential to the long term
security of the United States. |
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The primary goal of the organization is to ensure an adequate
and affordable water supply for the people of the San Joaquin
Valley both now and in the future. Our surface supplies and
underground aquifers must be protected against appropriation by
government agencies or private entities and the elitist position
that they have needs superior to ours. |
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FPV was started by a group of family farmers near the site of a
huge water bank proposed by Enron (later Azurix) Corporation. If
successful, this water bank would have contaminated the
underground aquifer in the area and sent Valley water supplies
to as far away as Las Vegas. FPV not only defeated Enron, but
also was successful in getting a local ordinance passed by the
Madera County Board of Supervisors to prevent ground water from
being exported from Madera County. Later, FPV was involved in
trying to protect East Side and West Side water from being
seized by fringe environmentalists and their political allies. |
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People you
might have a word with: |
United States Congressman Kevin McCarthy
661-327-3611 |
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United States Congressman David Valadao
661-864-7736 |
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California State Senator Andy Vidak
661-395-2620 |
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VIDEO:
California Farmers
Need Water and Not Politics! |
VIDEO:
Farm Water and the Business Crisis |
VIDEO:
Sean Hannity exposes the man-made drought
in California |
VIDEO:
A man-made drought? "I beg to differ,"
Secretary Salazar |
VIDEO:
Rep. Rohrabacher speaks regarding CA
water/delta smelt |
VIDEO:
California drought the real story,
"America the Stupid" |
VIDEO:
Save Our Water: The Fight Goes On! |
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LIBERAL SOLUTIONS
FOR THE CALIFORNIA DROUGHT |
VIDEO:
Assemblymember Chau: Save Our Water |
VIDEO:
Saves Money & Water in Los Angeles |
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EDITORIAL: A fishy drought in California, made worse by a smelt
Washington Times FEBRUARY
20, 2014
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REF:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/20/editorial-a-fishy-drought-in-california/#
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President Obama’s
traveling golfing circus and global-warming revival played
California’s San Joaquin Valley last week, where he used the
worst drought in decades as a backdrop to shill for his magic
elixir guaranteed to cure warts, relieve irregularity, conjure
water and expand government spending. |
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He correctly blames man
for the drought, but it’s not the men in pickup trucks or
astride John Deere tractors. |
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The San Joaquin Valley
was one of the most fertile agricultural regions in the world
until environmentalists created a dust bowl to save a three-inch
fish called the Delta smelt. |
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This little fish, not
much bigger than a minnow, suddenly became useful when radical
leftists realized they could cut off the water for nearly 25
million people and millions of acres of fertile farmland in the
interests of expanding federal control of the environment. |
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From his courtroom in
Fresno, U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger declared saving the
fish more important than feeding humans and, citing the
Endangered Species Act, in 2007 ordered the pumps watering the
valley from the Sacramento River turned off, lest the Delta
smelt be disturbed. |
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Choosing between saving
a minnow and watering the nation’s food basket was an easy call.
Instead of irrigating crops of fruit, fabric, vegetables and
grain, the water from the river was diverted from the farms to
the Pacific Ocean. |
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Families, farmers and
some elected officials in the Valley have pleaded with the
government to turn the spigots on again. The Valley continues to
shed jobs as farms dry up. The environment suffers as the
parched earth invites wildfires. |
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Rather than working to
get water to flow into the Valley again, the president offered
thirsty Californians only a bailout of $160 million in federal
aid. He blames global warming, of course, and his allies in
Congress, like Little Sir Echo, dutifully repeat his message. |
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House Democrats on
Tuesday badgered the Commerce Committee chairman to hold
hearings on the issue. “The committee needs to understand the
connection between climate change and drought in California and
the Western United States,” they said, “as well as the effects
of severe droughts.” There was no mention of the fishy nature of
the water shortage. |
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Read more:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/20/editorial-a-fishy-drought-in-california/##ixzz2vmvbHdsN
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