TAKE A STAND.The Chamber joins water, environmental, business and labor leaders throughout California in endorsing Proposition 13 on the March 7 ballot. The $1.97-billion water bond is titled the "Safe Drinking Water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. , Clean Water, Watershed Protection The term watershed refers to an area of land that drains precipitation that falls on it to a common point. These points could be streams, lakes, etc. Precipitatoin falling on any part of a watershed can travel quickly on the surface of the land, known as surface runoff, or travel through and Flood Protection Act" and will finance a variety of projects statewide. "Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, " is especially vulnerable during a statewide drought," says Chamber President Ezunial Burts. "Not only is our population growing -- with a projected 43 percent increase by the year 2020 -- but our water supply from the Colorado River Colorado River River, south-central Argentina. Its major headstreams, the Grande and Barrancas rivers, flow southward from the Andes Mountains and meet to form the Colorado near the Chilean border. It flows southeastward across northern Patagonia and the southern Pampas. and the Bay Delta is decreasing." The bond will approve funding for conservation measures, environmmental preservation, water storage studies and improved distribution mechanisms. Proposition 13 is a statewide measure endorsed by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is the largest bulk water supplier for municipal use in the world. The name is usually shortened to the "Metropolitan Water District" or simply "MWD". because it bring the water community and its customers together to improve the way water is acquired, distributed and protected. "We have to plan for the state's water future," says Burts. "I urge all of our members to support this measure at the voting booth by voting yes on Proposition 13." |
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