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<br />CALIFORNIA WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION
<br />Organized in 1955 as the FEATHER RIVER PROJECT ASSOCIATION
<br />223 East Broadway, Glendale, California 91205
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<br />San Francisco Chronicle 12/13/69
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<br />California Water Project
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<br />A Wet Gen.eration Gap
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<br />By Dono"" Be..
<br />"Two young a mat e u r
<br />lecologists from Berkeley
<br />lconfronted a roomful of
<br />w.a t e r experts yesterday
<br />and challenged the pre-
<br />Il)ises of the $3 billion Cali.
<br />f\lrnia Water Project.
<br />,:I'hey drew indignant reac.
<br />tlons from members of the
<br />~ornia Water Resources
<br />Association - most of them
<br />m,/ilIlY years older - meeting
<br />at the Hilton Inn,
<br />1.'I1e association formerly
<br />Pfpject Association, organ.
<br />lZed to get more w a te r '
<br />s!l,ipped into Southern Call-
<br />fqi;nia. Its president, Doyle
<br />Il()en of Riverside County, in.
<br />vited the young men - Rob-
<br />eit Apter and Gerald Meral
<br />- to sum up the arguments
<br />of the burgeoning conserva-
<br />tionist movement on coUeg,
<br />8IId high school campuses,
<br />Apter, a 20-year-old pre-
<br />J1:Ie.i student at the Universi.
<br />tJ of California in Berkeley,
<br />evoked groans of d i sse n t
<br />f1;pm his other,generation lis-
<br />tepers when he said:
<br />"I don't really see why
<br />Southern California wants to
<br />increase its population, We
<br />feel that population is proba.
<br />bly the central issue you
<br />h,ave to deal with,
<br />"There's a limit to how
<br />many people an environment
<br />can support. We have to
<br />work toward more independ.
<br />ence for each ecological re-
<br />gion..'
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<br />"I ha,ve to write a letter to i
<br />25 agencies on one river," he'
<br />declared,
<br />Meral asserted that too lit-
<br />tle time and money is spent
<br />on alternative methods to
<br />shipping Northern California
<br />water ~uth,
<br />"U desa1inization is what it I
<br />takes," he said, "Let's do it
<br />Charles R, Goldman, a pro-
<br />fessor of zoology at UC Da-
<br />vis, generally supported the
<br />young ecologists,
<br />"We've got to communi-
<br />cate, with the generation
<br />that's going to enjoy or di-
<br />senjoy the environment we
<br />create, U he said.
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<br />He urged that the Water
<br />Project planners build work.
<br />Ing modeI8 of the systems to
<br />test how reduce.1 flows would
<br />make waters turbid.
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<br />Nathan 0, Freedman, a man." he srod, "we don't Boen, presiding at the
<br />member of the Los Angeles have any water problem in me e tl n g, told his young
<br />City Water and Power Com- Los Angeles, remember that. guests: "San Francisco has
<br />You sh'ould not hl't, Us Wl'th imported water,"
<br />m is s ion, scowled at the
<br />young man and asked, "How smog, Water don't make "'!:You have very abl~' rat,!
<br />ld smog," !led off a large number of;
<br />wou you reduce the popula.
<br />tlon?" Apter spoke as a member questions and prohlems," he:
<br />Meral replied to that ques- of Active Conservation Tac, said. But it would "take liter-j
<br />tion, tics, a new Berkeley campus' ally days" for the water eX-I
<br />"Free;' legalized abortions, org~tion, Meral spoke as perts" to answer the ques-,
<br />is one method" he said " , ' a Sierra Club member who, lions, he added. I
<br />The point Is' to redu~eth~! specializes in protecting wild On the question of popula-I
<br />population growth rate, I rivers, tion he said, drily: "We do I
<br />"People could be Informed" "We have a choice of ej, not have the' jurisdiction of
<br />of the true situation - photo-' ther knowing what we are exercising birth control."
<br />graphs of Los Angeles on a i doing," said Apter, "or not Boon said he invited
<br />smoggy day probably would' tampering with the system, ,I two young guests to "develop
<br />discourage them," , . , We must put back into the i communication" with the;
<br />Apter 'suggested that Los; system what we take out of, )'oung, As of yesterday, how.l
<br />Angeles stop trying to pro- it," : ever, they "don't have com-\
<br />mote Its human growth rate, I Meral said California wa,' municatlon with the genera.
<br />, Freedman glared at Ap. ler problems currently add i tlons of know-how that are I
<br />ler's longish hair. "Young! up to "an unbelievable hod-I de a Ii n g with these prob-
<br />; gepodge," Ilems," he sald,
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<br />GERALD MERAL
<br />Free .bortlon.
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<br />ROBERT APTER
<br />Population illue
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<br />(over)
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