WashoeWater.Info
This website is not owned
by, sponsored by, or affiliated with any business.
The publisher fully understands that he may meet an untimely demise.
In such event, he requests that Senator Raggio be polygraphed.
Regards Washoe County, Nevada ~ the Reno Area ~ Circa 2008
Water fuels growth! If we leave the question of water importation up to politicians who are owned by developers, they will decide to float thousands of new homes and many shopping centers ~ complete with more congestion, more cars on the roads, more dirty air, and the need for more schools and government services. Our quality of life will go down while our taxes go up.
Washoe commissioners Humke, Weber, and Larkin voted FOR developers and against a citizens' initiative pertaining to growth on March 11, 2008. Their official contribution reports reveal where they have favors to repay. A partial, composite list of contributors is available here, sans dates, addresses, and amounts.
Our democracy is largely a hoax for at least two reasons.
The first reason is that politicians can be bought by wealthy persons and corporations. Except for hollow rhetoric, members of our federal Congress care little about the will of the "sovereign" American people, choosing instead to sell themselves to the highest bidders. Nevada's Jim Gibbons is under FBI investigation for accepting bribes while a congressman. Street smarts, however, suggest that Gibbons will be found "innocent" in that he has dirt on high officials garnered from his intelligence committee activities in the District of Criminals.
The second reason is that voting machines of different makes can be easily rigged to throw elections. This prostitutes elections in many political jurisdictions across the entire USA. Here it is fair to say that voters ~ who see nothing wrong with using video game machines that count votes in secret and which can be programmed to report false tally numbers ~ are just plain STUPID! There are many bottom feeders in our country who are willing to lie, cheat, steal, and kill in order to gain political power. Many books have been published about this.
Sequoia voting machines ~ just like ours in Nevada ~ were DECERTIFIED in California in 2007 at a cost to Golden State taxpayers of millions of dollars. Why? Because world-class computer experts determined that these machines have more holes than Swiss cheese. Some experts are on record as saying these machines were DESIGNED to throw elections! Like it or not ~ our elections system is dirty! Our system makes citizens play against a stacked deck.
Here's what YOU can do.
Visit the links below. Become informed.
Then attend government meetings and speak your mind.
Treat public servants as hired help, not as grand poobahs.
Ask questions and demand straight answers.
Don't take any guff from arrogant donkeys like Bob Larkin.
Join one or more groups working for a better tomorrow.
Get your friends, neighbors, and kinfolk involved.
Demand balanced reporting from the Reno Gazette (yeah, sure).
Demand that Nevada's dirty voting machines be decertified.
Demand the use of hand-marked and hand-counted paper ballots.
Make yourself a HARDCORE American!
Fight for decent government or you won't get it.
If you think any politician should resign, tell him so.
Items are not all in chronological sequence.
"A coalition of groups advocating controlled growth has filed a lawsuit in Washoe District Court seeking to overturn Reno's designation of 29,000 acres north of Reno in its annexation area as a 'special planning area' under its master plan." More
"Washoe County voters will not see any advisory questions on the Nov. 4 ballot about importing water or 'leap frog' annexations, after commissioners rejected two questions proposed Tuesday." More
"[Concerned citizens] contend the Truckee Meadows Regional Plan should be based on sustainable water resources and a public vote should be held before any future effort to import water from outside the county. "Advocates said the county has created growth areas for as many as 750,000 people over the next 20 years, future growth areas for 1.2 million people, but there's water for only 600,000 people. "Humke asked staff to perform a legal review about whether citizens can initiate a change in state law." More
"I have heard from many of my constituents ... about water rates skyrocketing out of control in order to finance cheaper water to fuel population growth. I want to ensure that we have comprehensive water planning in our community that adequately takes into account financial and environmental costs, especially when interbasin transfers are being considered. We need to ... ensure that these protections are in place before creating another bureaucracy that may not reflect the will of the people who already live here." ~ Assemblymember Sheila Leslie More
"The Vidler water supply project is permitted to import 8,000 acre feet of groundwater from the Honey Lake area to Lemmon Valley. The project includes a well field, pump station, substation, and transmission line. Construction of the 28-mile, $110 million transmission line began in Fall 2006 and was completed in August; the pump stations and terminal storage are scheduled for completion in late 2007. The first water is scheduled for delivery in early 2008. The cost to acquire water rights for the project is in addition to construction and permitting costs." More
"It’s too early to tell whether Vidler has what it takes to successfully pull off an importation project to the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area, said Bob Firth, a local water rights consultant. There is demand for water in Lemmon Valley. That valley’s aquifer is being overpumped by about 3,865 acre-feet a year." More
"A California water development company has purchased the Fish Springs Ranch in the Honey Lake Valley, and along with it water rights that once belonged to Washoe County's controversial groundwater importation project." More
"The (decision) gave Vidler Water Company approval to build a water pipeline from Fish Springs Ranch in the Honey Lake Basin to serve up to 16,000 new homes in the Stead and Lemmon Valley areas. Vidler plans to drill six wells and build a 35-mile pipeline to export the water." More
"The Bureau of Land Management filed a record of decision approving the Environmental Impact Statement on Wednesday, May 31, (2006), for the project pipeline to cross federal lands." More
"... ranchers say that the Nevada pumps could draw down the aquifer they say the two states share and thus harm the wells used to irrigate fields. They also complain that the Nevada pumps could lower the water table enough to dry up springs that seep naturally into some pastures and moisten wetlands used by deer and other wildlife." More
RETURN TO HOMETOWN SUN VALLEY DOT INFO
Other recommended websites.
Webmaster Email ~ Would you like to suggest another link?
This website was launched February 29, 2008
Last modified May 9, 2008UNDER CONSTRUCTION