Looking to interview California activist about water crisis

[Sand Castle]

So I have a seemingly insignificant website called Our Streets. It's linked to in my signature.

I'm looking to take a few minutes sometime before Sunday to interview (via Skype or something) a way cool activist from California who is working around the issue of the water crisis/drought there.

So if you are someone who is working on the drought issue, or know someone, or know a group I should email, let me know.

[Hagalaz]

I'm in california but I don't understand your question.
"Working around the issue of the water crisis/drought"?

[Sand Castle]

Well, obviously there is a drought and water shortage out there. I'm wondering if there is anyone doing some sort of activism about it. I know Nestle is extracting ground water there while regular people go without. I figured it would have turned into a political issue by now.

[Hagalaz]

Who are the people that do without?
Are you talking about farmers?

[Jimmie Higgins]

Water is a battle in California, but there's no radical activism around it as far as I'm aware (probably something, but might be kinda niche). There's all sorts of levels to this struggle, growers vs. housing developers, environmentalists vs. growers, Northern California growers vs urban areas in Southern California.

Agriculture in the valley is so powerful that I'm pretty sure they get to waste and pollute as much as they want. Industry probably gets the water they need. So when drought happens, it's treated as an induvidual consumer issue and sometimes suburban communities are told they can't water their lawns, etc. since most mainstream environmental activism is also consumer-oriented, I think most environmental attention also just goes towards telling regular people to not run the tap the whole time they brush their teeth or to flush turds but not urine.

From my view it's too big of an issue to address in that way. Water is a question of who controls resources and right now it's largely agriculture, industry, and then maybe housing developers.

At any rate, I don't know of any groups or individuals working towards a class or popular counterweight to these forces.

[Red Commissar]

Late now, but there was a good article I read a while back here (http://www.alternet.org/story/148169/billionaire_farmers_scheming_to_privatize_californ ia%27s_water_are_under_attack?paging=off&current_page=1). The same guy had articles about the current water crisis in California on another website though it has since been taken down. He's still active, maybe give him an email? It seems he is active on twitter too. He seemed pretty knowledgeable about the going-ons of California's water supply and the politics around it.

[Sand Castle]

Thanks you all. You aren't the only ones telling me there isn't much, or any, work being done. I will try to reach out to that guy, RC. Thanks for weighing in.