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...Willey was living with her husband Jim, an Army captain, ten miles from Pearl Harbor...
...Willey reads the unspoken cue; they are imagining Owens Valley: The Sequel, in which Los Angeles, having glommed up water and put farmers out of business in the now infamous valley south of Mono Basin, casts a thirsty eye their way. He tries to reassure them. The idea is to spread the water-marketing deals around to avoid a concentrated effect on any single farming area. No one is telling farmers to take land out of production or move to the city. A textbook negotiator, Willey subtly points up benefits that the farmers would rather temporarily overlook: Wouldn...
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...
...this is about as expected, Willey says on the drive home. If he can get all sides to settle on a price, his next job may be more difficult. In its last days, the Reagan Administration stated it had no objections to water marketing (in a memo written by an Assistant Secretary now handling water- project bonds at Drexel Burnham Lambert). But other voices may object to the idea that farmers who receive subsidized water for crops, and further subsidies not to grow those crops, should profit handsomely on the sale of the subsidized water. Willey argues that the profits...
...postcard-writing public should pay as well as write cards is not an easy one for preservationists to swallow," Graff concedes. But "if there was more of a willingness to pay for maintaining the environment, we wouldn't have to rely on bureaucratic whim." It is evident that Willey and Graff believe in their neo-capitalist approach. The bottom line then naturally presents itself: Gentlemen, what do we get for our money...