"Getting Ready for the Next Drought," 3/19 Press Democrat editorial

[Shepherd]

Here's a link to today's Press Democrat editorial "Getting Ready for the Next Drought".

Great time to respond to the PD's editorial at [email protected] with letters up to 200 words. Industrial sized winery/event centers like Dairyman guzzle millions of gallons of groundwater.

In spite of the fact that wineries such as the huge Dairyman that wants to locate on Highway 12 between Santa Rosa and Sebastopol would consume more than their fair share of water, there is no mention of the wine industry. The rest of us are supposed to reduce water consumption, while such wineries as event centers have free use. In Napa wineries are already trucking in fresh water and trucking out waste-water.

Yesterday's PD had an article entitled "State Expands Water Use Limits," which means you and me, but not the wine industry, which can use as much as it can buy.

More information and updates at the new Facebook page that Preserve Rural Sonoma County just created: https://www.facebook.com/preserveruralsonomacounty. It includes a link to an article in the LA Times that indicates that at the current rate California may have only a year of water. Yet the meager rules that currently apply to the wine industry are often violated and seldom fined.