Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard purchased the site, which includes the St. Paul's rectory and its 4800 square-foot parking lot bordering Quincy and Leverett Houses, from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston two weeks ago for an undisclosed...
Water marketing, first debated in the 1970s, was an appealing idea: farmers use about 85% of California's water, and because they get it from state and federal water projects at subsidized rates, they tend to squander it. An acre- foot that costs Southern California urbanites $230 may cost farmers as little as $10, so even adding in the heavy cost of transporting the water in the state's vast aqueduct system, there is room for both sides to benefit from resale of unneeded irrigation allotments. The idea had two minor drawbacks: many California farmers would sooner spread salt...
...says of the morning's talks. "There are still some groups in the valley that wouldn't sit in the same room with us." E.D.F. hopes to entice two of the more progressive irrigation districts, Firebaugh and Broadview, to risk heresy and agree to a 10,000-acre- foot pilot project. "The party line is that nobody takes water from agriculture. That's what they're going against...
Both irrigation districts are firm on one point. The bid of $60 an acre-foot that Willey has presented on behalf of the Mono Lake litigants will cut no deals. One farmer states the proposition from Willey's point of view: "You get the price up, and if farm prices aren't so good, you're going to get other districts saying, 'Look what those fellows are doing over there.' " A price upwards of $125 might begin to stir their interest. Then they grimace and stare at their thumbs as if to say they honestly wished they could do better...
...going to produce new public benefits: irrigation systems that use less water and produce less pollution. A Mono County businessman suggests that the sale of water rights ought to be regulated to prevent profiteering. But here Willey hews to the free-market line: even if the price per acre-foot starts out high, he says, competition will drive it down to a fair level as other irrigation districts try to get in on the action. Beyond that, someone has to pick up the bill for the replacement water. Los Angeles has agreed to pay part of the cost...