Controversial issue facing the west today:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-delta21jul21,0,5934211.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials


There is the issue of water rights in California, as the south of California wants to divert water from northern California to the south using a peripheral canal.
There also currently issues regarding water rights in states with low rainfall, such as, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. However this article deals with the water dispute in California.
The dispute are over who the canal shall benefit, as it will benefit the south, but perhaps not the north, and environmentalists who want to leave the delta alone to preserve it’s ecosystem.
“Jerry Brown ran into crushing opposition in 1982 when he backed a peripheral canal that would carry water around the delta to users in Southern California. Those users saw it as an extension of the system that greened their cities. Northern Californians, environmentalists and others saw it as a water grab. It was defeated at the polls by a 3-2 margin.” So now Californian’s have to decide what they want to do with their water and who the water should belong to. “Californians should surrender old hysterias and give a considered delta solution — perhaps one that incorporates a peripheral canal — a chance to emerge.”