EBMUD considers water use restrictions
April 28, 2008 | Posted by Thomas J. Graff in Water Supply
Thomas J. Graff is Senior Counsel at EDF.
Way back in 1972 EDF launched a lawsuit against EBMUD in an effort to wean EBMUD away from its plan to access a supplemental water supply from the American River above Sacramento.
Just eleven months ago, EBMUD and its Sacramento partners, following the settlement of the suit, broke ground on a joint project that would both provide EBMUD and the Sacramento area with drought insurance and protect environmental and recreational flows in the lower American River (see picture of Lt. Gov. Garamendi wielding a shovel in May 2007 at the Freeport project groundbreaking).
The deal came too late for EBMUD to have a second water supply source this year, but it augurs well for a future in which global warming may make supply shortages more common.
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