Water District Board Members Mike Ti and Jody Roberto Can End Rigged Study Promoting Desert-Damaging Water Project
![Sierra Club staff and volunteers at Bonanza Springs. Senate Bill 307 passed two years ago, requiring projects like Cadiz to meet high state environmental standards. Cadiz needs the biased Three Valleys study of its water project to give it a longshot chance of obtaining state permission to operate. Photo credit Chris Clarke.](/sites/angeles.sierraclub.org/files/307%20One.jpg)
Sierra Club staff and volunteers at Bonanza Springs. Senate Bill 307 passed two years ago, requiring projects like Cadiz to meet high state environmental standards. Cadiz needs the biased Three Valleys study of its water project to give it a longshot chance of obtaining state permission to operate. Photo credit Chris Clarke.
![Three Valleys board member Jody Roberto has so far refused to comment on efforts by the Three Valleys water district to rig an environmental study.](/sites/angeles.sierraclub.org/files/Roberto.jpg)
Three Valleys board member Jody Roberto has so far refused to comment on efforts by the Three Valleys water district to rig an environmental study.
![Board member Daniele Soto objected to the water district using a Cadiz-selected consultant to oversee a study of the Cadiz water project.](/sites/angeles.sierraclub.org/files/Soto%20Final_0_0.jpg)
Board member Daniele Soto objected to the water district using a Cadiz-selected consultant to oversee a study of the Cadiz water project.
![Migratory desert bighorn sheep depend on water from Bonanza Spring to survive. The Cadiz water mining project would lower the water table and devastate the springs. The upper springs is shown here. Photo credit: John Monsen.](/sites/angeles.sierraclub.org/files/Upper%20Bonanza.jpg)
Migratory desert bighorn sheep depend on water from Bonanza Spring to survive. The Cadiz water mining project would lower the water table and devastate the springs. The upper springs is shown here. Photo credit: John Monsen.
John Monsen is a former Los Angeles Sierra Club National Field staff member. He was presented a 2017 Chapter Extraordinary Achievement Award in part for his effort to help establish the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. As Vice Chair of the Political Committee last year he led an effort that replaced three conservative water board members with progressive people of color. He is heading up the Stop Cadiz effort for the Angeles Chapter Water Committee.
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