Episodes
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
A Shakedown of Metropolitan Water District’s Priorities
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
My guests for the full hour are two water activists who’ve been monitoring consequential infrastructure decisions over the decades: Sierra Club Water Committee Chair Charming Evelyn; and Conner Everts, Executive Director of the Southern California Watershed Alliance and facilitator of the Environmental Water Caucus. They attend innumerable water board meetings so that you and I don’t have to! Today’s focus is on some Metropolitan Water District board of directors’ maneuvering to oust the forward thinking general manager Adel Hagekhalil. Charming ad Conner connect the dots between this power struggle and the Newsom administration’s top priority - the $20+ billion Delta Tunnel project. Actually we learn it's more like $38 billion, not counting the much anticipated cost over-runs. Music credits: Chimora, “Africano Americano,” Sounds of Africa - album; Bill Beach, “Aqua De Beber,” Letting Go – album.