President1 comment-14706 2009-09-30T16:22:36Z 2009-09-30T16:22:36Z We hear the same kind of retoric up hear in Shingletown about the water. It's lost to evaporation, people are using and wasting more water, these things happen and will always happen. The evaporation is part of the natural cycle and will happen until man uses all of the surface water. As far as usage, that recharges our aquifers and the next guy uses it again. When it's taken from the natural flow and put into plastic bottles it's gone. Sure it eventually goes back to the earth, but not where it naturally flowed before. LOCALWATERSTAYSLOCAL.ORG President1 2009-09-30T16:22:36Z President1 comment-14704 2009-09-30T16:06:57Z 2009-09-30T16:06:57Z The question I have is; Why is the authority to make these decisions on our water supplies able to be made by local politicians??? In Orland it's the city manager, in Mccloud it was the city water district, in Shasta county it's the director of public works and the county supervisors, now in Sacramento it's your local water district. We have a state water control board and water resources boards and water rights boards, what do they do??? A few years back the state gave the authority to the locals to allocate OUR water, WHY??? President1 2009-09-30T16:06:57Z President1 comment-14703 2009-09-30T15:58:35Z 2009-09-30T15:58:35Z These plants are all automated and practically run themselves. The technical jobs go to Nestle's in house people who are familiar with the equipment and of course the management jobs go to their people also. This leaves the janitorial jobs (Very Few) to be filled by locals. As for truck driving jobs, how many tanker trucks do you see around that are not working?? If you read the articles about bottled water testing they will tell a story that you would not like to hear. There is little to no restrictions on bottled water, there are more on tap water, so if they use the city water that's already treated nothing but profit and the city pays for it. Dick Rullman, President - "Local water Stays Local" Shingletown, CA "Localwaterstayslocal.org" President1 2009-09-30T15:58:35Z