Author: Wayne Lusvardi
Wayne Lusvardi formerly worked for California’s largest urban water agency and lives in Rancho Mirage.
GOP Uses Obama Law to Fund Dams Barred By State Water Bond
The 2014 California Water Bond mainly benefits constituents of the Democrat Party, such as environmentalists, scientists, commercial fishermen, Indian tribes and Bay-Delta farmers to the exclusion of Central Valley farmers and towns for which the federal Central Valley Project was...
Rooftop solar monopoly
Now that the rooftop mandate for new homes has been relaxed to allow communities to choose cheaper power from municipal solar farms, will new homeowners be allowed to choose cheaper and cleaner conventional energy sources through local Community Choice energy?...
Kern County Water Districts and White Lands – Kern County Water Agency
A controversial aspect of new California groundwater regulation is the unofficial collaboration of the Environmental Defense Fund to structure water markets that previously failed; and circular buy-outs of farmlands funded with high water rates paid by the same farmers whose...
Trump Quietly Busts up California’s Deep (Water) State
Before President Donald Trump was elected, on May 27, 2016 he stated at a rally in Fresno, California: “There is no drought…If I win, believe me, we’re going to start opening up the water so that you can have your...