If Norma Galindo will lie about a quote in this newspaper article, what won’t she lie about?
Does truth matter?
At the January 5th, 2015 IID Board meeting, Norma Galindo once again attacked JB Hamby and told an incredibly egregious Whopper Lie.
We supply the article for your reading pleasure and request that you consider the article and watch the accompanying video of Galindo and also JB Hamby’s response.
Article: Extensive coverage on the current state of the Colorado River.
Climate's toll on the Colorado River: 'We can weather maybe a couple of years'
By Ian James, Enviromental Reporter, Arizona Republic
The text from the Article is at the bottom:
Video Clips:
Watch the 1/5/2021 Boardmeeting.
1/5/2021 IID BoardMeeting
‘We need to set the terms’
In other parts of the river basin, some representatives of agricultural water agencies are worried about the potential consequences of paying farmers to leave land dry.
One such voice is J.B. Hamby, a newly elected board member of California’s Imperial Irrigation District, who said he’s concerned that while cities and sprawling suburbs continue to grow rapidly, agricultural communities are increasingly at risk. He said people in cities need to realize there is a priority system that shouldn’t be changed.
“The fact is that we were here first. We established a right to this. We continue to be more efficient,” Hamby said. “And it was their choice to build a Phoenix or a Las Vegas in the middle of these bowls of sun, in the middle of the most arid places in the country.”
Arizona gets nearly 40% of its water from the Colorado River. Much of it flows in the Central Arizona Project Canal, which cuts across the desert from Lake Havasu to Phoenix and Tucson.
In 2020, Arizona and Nevada took less water from the river under the drought agreement among Lower Basin states, and in 2021 they will again leave some of their water in Lake Mead. The latest projections show Mead could fall below a key threshold by summer, which would trigger a shortage declaration and larger cutbacks in 2022.
Hamby pointed to the recent history of the Imperial Irrigation District, which in 2003 approved a deal that transferred increasing amounts of water from Imperial Valley farm to cities in Southern California.
Now, with less water flowing to farms, the amount of runoff into the Salton Sea has shrunk, leaving growing stretches of exposed lakebed that spew dust into the air. The dust is contributing to some of the worst air pollution in the country, and many children suffer from asthma.
Hamby said the Imperial Valley would have been better off without the water transfer deal. Looking at the proposed approach in Colorado, Hamby said, it seems to replicate what occurred in Imperial.
"When you tie money to water, you get users who become addicted to the money and don't actually in the end start to want to farm anymore,” Hamby said. “That is really corrosive to the long-term survival, much less thriving, of rural communities when people get more hooked on money rather than the way of life and putting the water on the land.”
He argued that such an approach would be “subverting the whole priority system” and enabling cities to avoid taking cuts themselves.
Hamby suggested cities should instead invest in more conservation, water recycling and other sustainability efforts.In the years to come, Hamby said, farming communities shouldn’t be told to use less and face the consequences.