Colorado River or SF Bay-Delta Water?
Last Sunday's Orange County Register describes the concern in urban Southern California when they are forced to rely on "hard" water (more salt and minerals) from the Colorado River rather than better quality Bay-Delta supplies. This belies the myth often perpetrated by DWR and MWD that they prefer Colorado River to SF Bay-Delta water, when it is available, because it is cheaper. Those with long memories may recall that they made a legislative run at changing the priorities in the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984 to allow MWD to use "cheap" Hoover power to pump State water from the Delta over the Tehachapis. Tony Coelho and Sala Burton sponsored, and had approved by consensus, an amendment to make this more difficult.
