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Point and CounterpointSeptember 29, 2011
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News Archive
This is the update of the April 6 proposal to the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District. The additions are printed in red. They take into account questions raised by District Directors at the July 18, 2011 proposal workshop that took place at the District's regular meeting that evening.
(The free Adobe Reader software is required to read our pdf documents. Download Adobe Reader here.) Monterey Herald, Feb. 17, 2011 Water district receives OK to form new agency. Leaders want to put By Jim Johnson, Herald writer "A bid to dissolve or reorganize the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District and form a new agency as part of an effort to purchase California American Water's local system can proceed under the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO). " Monterey Herald, Feb. 10, 2011 Water buyout bid draws crowd. Groups push for public ownership. By Jim Johnson, Herald writer "More than 100 people listened to a three-person panel speak Wednesday for a bid to back the public purchase of California American Water's Monterey district system."
Monterey County Herald Front Page, "RESIDENTS GATHER ALLIES Group says public ownership will bring down cost" "Making its pitch for a public purchase of California American Water, a group of community leaders is making the rounds of local governments and public agencies on the Peninsula in search of backing for its proposal."
CORE GAME PLAN FOR Cal-Am’s plan to crush opposition and raise prices was recently unintentionally exposed in an internationally distributed article entitled Ten Companies to Invest in Over the Next Decade. Cal-Am is owned lock, stock and barrel by the American Water Works Company, a huge New Jersey corporation. (View American Water's corporate revenue data here.) AWK (as the company is listed on the New York stock exchange) in turn is heavily owned by European share holders, of whom the key ownership is German. 
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CommentaryMonterey Herald, Jan. 5, 2012
Guest Commentary by Ron Weitzman Monterey Herald, Oct. 26, 2011
Guest Commentary by Ron Weitzman Monterey Herald, Sept. 17, 2011
Guest Commentary by Ron Weitzman Monterey Herald, August 17, 2011 Letter to the Editor by Claude B. Hutchison Jr. Monterey Herald, August 18, 2011 Response to recent media coverage of water issues. Guest Commentary by Ron Weitzman
Carmel Valley Association Newsletter Are you willing to pay Cal-Am By Ron Weitzman "Contrary to some recently published scare rhetoric, a public agency buying Cal-Am would not delay the desal project." Monterey County Herald Editorial "TIME IS RIGHT TO LOOK "It may not seem like it, but if there ever was a right time for residents of the Peninsula to take a serious look at a public takeover of the local California American Water operation, this is it."
Monterey County Herald Op Ed "PUBLIC CONTROL OF WATER (Guest commentary by D. Michael Langford, national president of Utility Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO, which represents 50,000 employees in utility and related industries across the United States.) "The Utility Workers of America – which represents the hourly employees of California American Water and 2,400 other employees of its parent company across the U.S. – enthusiastically supports proposals for public ownership of the company's Monterey operations by the local community."
ActionThe Cal Am Water Buffalo, by Ed Greco
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THE NEW WATERPLUS
MISSION STATEMENT
Since the collapse of the regional desalination project, in which WaterPlus advocated for community control by promoting the municipalization of Cal Am, WaterPlus has expanded its mission as follows: To advocate in behalf of local Cal Am ratepayers for an adequate and affordable water supply by all reasonable means, including (its original mission) the persuasion or creation of a public agency to purchase Cal Am.
IMPLEMENTATION
To implement this new mission, WaterPlus is promoting the development of a desalination plant that will be sufficiently large to constitute a drought-proof water supply for the Monterey Peninsula, at the least possible cost to local ratepayers.
News Items, Letters, and Commentaries On Desal
Storage and recovery a bad idea
Letter to Monterey Herald
by Ron Weitzman April 17, 2012
Outlook still grim for new water authority
Monterey Herald Guest Commentary
by Ron Weitzman April 1, 2012
Peninsula must quickly act on water
Monterey Herald Guest Commentary
by Ron Weitzman March 3, 2012
Desal EIR dealt blow: review failed to consider water rights, judge rules
By Jim Johnson, Monterey Herald Staff Writer February 3, 2012
Making Water Go Public
Monterey Herald Guest Commentary
by Ron Weitzman January 22, 2012
Cal Am quits desal project
By Jim Johnson, Monterey Herald Staff Writer January 18, 2012
Local water costs continue to increase
Monterey Herald Guest Commentary by Ron Weitzman January 5, 2012
It's all about water profits
Letter to Monterey Herald by Ron Weitzman December 21, 2011
Now we're talking billions
Letter to Monterey Herald by Ron Weitzman November 17, 2011
The Case Against Cal-Am
The private monopoly controlling
the water for practically all of us in the Monterey Peninsula – Cal-Am– is now empowered to triple or quadruple your water bill – with no cap! 
No local control!
No local ownership!
No
new water!
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As many of us who knew and loved him know, Bill Bates has never left us
in spirit. To underline our subhead "water for the people by the people," special for us he did the 
portraits of Jefferson and Franklin on our masthead. And for a reminder of all we stand to lose if the Cal-Am Calamity drives the water rates up, up, up, we’re featuring Bill’s
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