Gov. Jerry Brown is playing fast and loose with the democratic system in California in his efforts to get his cherished Delta canal, or tunnel, constructed. After his "State of the State" speech earlier in the year, Brown attended a meeting of the Orange County Business Council, where he said he may yank the Water Bond off the November 2012 ballot, just as previous Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did with the 2010 ballot. Brown remarked that the general obligation bond measure is not immediately nec...

Gov. Brown may strongly endorse the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, however the facts of Delta over-pumping continue to contribute to the complexity of the issue. What the water agencies do not want you to know is that the Department of Water Resources (DWR) allowed the Delta to be over-pumped from 2000 to 2006 in order to allow the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) to make up for its loss of much of its Colorado River allocation (See Graph). The graph, courtesy of the MWD, shows that from 1976 th...