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Dairy farmers doing
their half in water use
Re: “It’s time that we realign state’s water utilization priorities” (Web page A6, June 1).
The latest op-ed about realigning priorities for water utilization missed the purpose for dairy. Individuals and communities are top-of-mind as dairy farm households frequently enhance water conservation and safety. The quantity of water used to supply a gallon of California milk has decreased by greater than 88% over the previous 50-plus years.
As much as 40% of feed substances utilized in California dairies are agricultural byproducts, equivalent to almond hulls, cottonseed and citrus pulp. Researchers at UC Davis estimate that this reduces the quantity of water wanted for dairy feed by as a lot as 1.3 trillion gallons annually.
Dairy farmers are doing their half to grasp how local weather change and the trail towards groundwater sustainability will affect farms and communities, and what alternatives exist to additional enhance good water use — serving to create a extra resilient, accessible and nutritious meals system.
Michael Boccadoro
Government director, Dairy Cares
Sacramento
BART ought to enhance
transparency for bailout
Re: “New BART finances may have deficit of $93M” (Web page A1, June 10).
Earlier than Gov. Newsom approves a bailout for BART, state legislators like Scott Wiener and others who’re pushing for it, ought to demand that BART open its books and function in a extra clear method.
State legislators, and taxpayers, particularly these within the Bay Space who already subsidize BART, have a proper to know what “belt-tightening” actions BART has taken over the previous a number of years as ridership has declined. An unbiased auditor was unable to make a lot headway into BART’s operations and finances; she subsequently resigned.
Perhaps state officers can do higher earlier than bailing out the insulated transit system and its Board of Administrators who seem to reply to nobody.
Cathy Teegardin
Nice Hill
Muwekma Ohlone Tribe
deserves recognition
Our elected officers must act to revive federal recognition for the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe.
In partnership with archeologists, the Muwekma tribe lately encountered and studied a Muwekma village, Sii Tuupentak. The Muwekma participated in a research to show their genetic hyperlink to the individuals who lived for hundreds of years south of Pleasanton.
Along with the family tree and ethnographic historical past the tribe has achieved, the tribe has the science to show that they need to be federally acknowledged.
Native American tribes first survived murderous genocide after which survived numerous strategies of cultural genocide. Denying the Muwekma federal recognition within the face of irrefutable proof is a technique of cultural genocide. Our elected officers are able to cease the cultural genocide of the Muwekma tribe, and they need to act.
Sarah Blain
Oakland
Doc case proves
Trump’s recklessness
So Donald Trump is lastly indicted over his dealing with of safe paperwork at his house in Florida.
