A HUGE THANK YOU...I printed the signature list as of today (8-16-09) for delivery tomorrow to the Capital during our Million Boat Float Protest, part two...Please keep forwarding this to EVERYONE you know to aid us in our fight to stop Arnie from selling us AND the rivers DOWN the river to Kern County. As you may have read, the enviornmental groups filed a suit in FEDERAL court Thursday...keep your fingers crossed....and keep the names coming in....we will not go quietly into the night!.

Agriculture uses 80-90 percent of the water in the state. Commercial and residential uses only 10-20 percent combined. The water laws do not promote conservation, but rather a "use it or lose it" system of water rights. As a result, agriculture has no incentive for conservation of water, and in fact is deliberately wasteful so they do not lose their water rights. A re-write of water law would allow conservation, and agriculture could easily conserve 10 to 20 percent with using simple cost effective measures at no loss of actual water needed to grow crops. A simple 10 percent conservation would double the supply available to residential and commercial users. So, there is no need for a peripheral canal, just peripheral thinking. Read Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner for a compelling history of water use in California.

This is more political bull. Our governor promised to listen to the people...he IS NOT doing that again!!!! He just wants to help get water to sourthern CA cronies, and to himself when he moves back home!!!! No on destroying the California Delta!!!!!!!!!!!

This proposed project is very selfish and irresponsible. Our gov't, both state and federal, is dishonest and out of control.

What is Sacramento thinking. It would be an ecological disaster to circumvent water around the Delta. Don't let them do it!

This "NeoPeripheral Canal" is nothing less than a bold, upstream water grab. By installing this canal- reputed to be planned at some 300' wide (as wide as a football field is long!)- the SoCal interests will effectively have connected the Sacramento River above Walnut Grove DIRECTLY to their export pumps down near Tracy. The sweet, fresh water coming down the Sacramento and all upstream inflows will then be controlled by SoCal...completely bypassing the Delta! Yes, SoCal and valley agriculture do need water...but make them take it from the south Delta as it currently is - AFTER it flows through, dilutes and flushes the Delta system. Bypass the Delta and it WILL be destroyed.

In 1982 the voters of the state of California overwhelmingly voted against the building of a peripheral canal, how can the state now use secret sessions and go forward with building the canal anyway? Where are the public interest attorneys? The people of california could not willfully overturn proposition 8 after the 2009 election, how can the state do the same thing after the people have spoken so clearly? I do not understand.

Anyone that has been on the river this year has seen the unusually low tides. At the end of the last drought we did not have tides this low. It is obvious more water is being allowed out of the river right now than ever before. It is flowing south, all the aqueducts are full. The Valley farmers have been on the news this year saying they have no water for irrigation and pleading to put in the peripheral canal or the nations most productive farmland may dry up. It seems to me the valves have been shut on these farmers to get some sympathy through the media. I guess it must be cheaper for so cal to buy politicians than desalinize water.

This is a political and federally motivated PROPOSED project. The local agencies/counties will have no jurisdictional control in their Delta region -the power is in the hands of 5 people appointed by the Governor. If this passes, we are giving the family jewels (the water) away. Very ill-conceived to obtain the two scientifically flawed federal mandates of clean water act and species protection act. It is a agricultural land grab to use the riparian rights of water to ship south. mpmorris

Please help us gather signatures to keep the California Delta from being destroyed by corporate farmers and the millionaires that have sold our water unfairly, overpumped our eco system and threaten to decimate what is left.