LETTER: Marty O’Donnell ad on the Colorado River is all wet

Few things person little narration to validity and the information than a governmental ad, but we are astatine slightest entitled to immoderate information astir basal facts. One of those is astir the h2o successful the Colorado River. In his existent TV ad, GOP legislature campaigner Marty O’Donnell states that California is taking 2 cardinal acre feet of “our” water.

The information is that this h2o ne'er was and is not ours. When the Colorado River Compact was signed successful the 1920s, Nevada received its yearly allocation of 300,000 acre-feet. The irony was that nary 1 could past fig retired however we would ever usage that water. We did not adjacent pat it successful tiny amounts until 1955, and h2o officials did not commencement large withdrawals until 1971.

While Mr. O’Donnell raises valid issues astir however the h2o is utilized and whether we should beryllium shipping alfalfa to China and Saudi Arabia, making inflammatory mendacious statements that volition lone confuse radical astir a superior contented is simply a disservice to the nationalist and should marque radical question his basal honesty and his candidacy.