It's Time to Solve Our Water Problems

By Lance Monosoff

• It's time to solve our water problems. We are all in this together.

• Cal-Am Water Company has been illegally pumping from the Carmel River and the Seaside Aquafir.

• Stop taking so much water or we will suffer state imposed financial over-pumping penalties through higher water bills.

• A new desalination plant is the best solution sized to meet current needs.

• Complete the desalination plant before the next drought occurs.

• This is a community wide resource problem. We should be looking for a shared solution.

• Saving stormwater runoff, now going directly to the ocean.

• Conservation and education.

• Allowing homes & businesses to be plumbed to use re-cycled water.

• Collecting rain water and storing in cisterns.

• Encourage sustainable water use;

• Fair allocation of new water to current residents and local businesses;

• A new small desalination plant designed to meet our current community needs;

• Simplified rules that make sense to all of us;

• Solutions with the fewest environmental impacts;

• End water profiteering.