Will Rogers: More, not less, oversight needed on water issues

Jack Mobley says he’s campaigning on common sense and less government. It would have made more “common sense” if we had had more government oversight into regulating greedy water mining, then we wouldn’t have farmers cultivating their land with a drilling rig to grow multiple commercial deep wells and pumping our underground water as a never-ending harvest. Those farmers have turned water into a multimillion-dollar cash crop. (This should include regulating Safeway’s Merced plant and their pumping and bottling groundwater to sell.)

Less government lacks “common sense” and will not protect Californian’s dropping water table or lessen soil subsidence. Less government will not protect homes whose foundations are cracking from soil subsidence or prevent rural wells from going dry. Our diminishing water supply is pumped and sold to counties where there’s more government and more “common sense” and where it is illegal to mine their dwindling shared groundwater aquifers.

This story was originally published October 28, 2014 at 6:46 PM with the headline "Will Rogers: More, not less, oversight needed on water issues."