San Diego To Take Julian Water

San Diego To Take Julian Water

There are a lot of reservoirs in the San Diego County back country such as Cuyamaca Lake and Lake Henshaw that store water for water companies in the metropolitan areas, but the water situation for the urban areas will get more desperate this summer with the cutback in supplies from the Metropolitan Water District. The reservoirs rely on natural streams and the accompanying water loss in the transport to the lower lying cities makes them inefficient. Also those waters don’t directly benefit the city of San Diego because they belong to other water districts. Reports show that the replenishment of groundwater from this season’s storms has been ample. Only 5% of the county’s residents get their water from groundwater whereas the average for the state is 30% and that doesn’t seem fair to the city of San Diego (the numbers just don’t lie). Because they have lost so much of their allotment from northern California and will have to start rationing water from their canteen onto San Diegans’ dry parched lips and in the interest of public safety and reliability, the city of San Diego will be creating an innovative pipeline to snake through Ramona to Julian (the northern line) plus another southern line to tap into all the public and private wells along the way. All this so that a condo’s automatic sprinklers can overwater its shrubs and lawns in a rainstorm. They won’t take it all- they will leave us a little. Imagine the outrage that will follow when this happens, but the hundreds of thousands of teeming masses in the city will have their way because they have their votes and have said “See if you can stop us.” Private property rights of the affected back country residents won’t be worth spit plus they won’t have the water to hawk it up. For those who say this will happen over their dead body, the city is willing to oblige. Of course the city has no plans as of yet to actually kill anyone, but the residents of the back country are aging and so if a property owner is particularly recalcitrant, the city will simply wait for them to die before swooping in with their connection. The city’s desperation for water will reach a fevered pitch as many of the 650,000 new houses are built, enabled by the Sunrise Powerlink which will be built in the interest of public safety and reliability. San Diego is also desperate to have the new houses built because it will increase the tax base and help San Diego’s budget problem, solve the construction workers’ unemployment problem, keep houses affordable if they build too many of them and make the developers happy because there is still some land left without houses and strip malls on them.

©2009 Eric Stamets