Lloyd G. Carter's Audio Podcast
Down in the Valley - June 11, 2010 by Lloyd Carter
Submitted by lgc_admin on Mon, 06/14/2010 - 12:53.31:56 minutes (29.23 MB)
Lloyd’s June 12 radio interview with EPA regional administrator Jared Blumenfeld can be heard HERE
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Down in the Valley - April 9, 2010 by Lloyd Carter
Submitted by lgc_admin on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 12:40.27:32 minutes (25.21 MB)
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Down in the Valley - June 12, 2009
Submitted by lgc_admin on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 14:30.31:09 minutes (5.86 MB)
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Down in the Valley - April 10, 2009
Submitted by lgc_admin on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 14:57.In his April 10, 2009 monthly radio show, California water expert Lloyd Carter discusses how growers in the Western San Joaquin Valley gambled big and lost by planting over 120,000 acres of permanent crops (trees and vines) on land formerly used for annual vegetable crops. Now that drought haunts California and water supplies to the Western valley has been cut to near zero, growers are scrambling to keep their orchards alive. Carter also discusses a grower-organized protest march of farmworkers sponsored by the California Latino Water Coalition.
Down in the Valley - March 13, 2009
Submitted by lgc_admin on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 14:48.29:21 minutes (6.96 MB)
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Down in the Valley - February 13, 2009
Submitted by lgc_admin on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 19:40.29:09 minutes (26.7 MB)
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Down in the Valley - January 09, 2009
Submitted by lgc_admin on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 15:04.In his January 2009 monthly radio show, Lloyd Carter discusses pending legislation in Congress to restore flows in the dewatered San Joaquin River, following a 20-year court battle, and Gov. Schwarzenegger's grand scheme to build a controversial peripheral canal around the Bay-Delta estuary to transport Northern California river water south to mega-farms in the western San Joaquin Valley.
Down in the Valley - October 10, 2008
Submitted by lgc_admin on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 16:04.In his October 2008 monthly radio show, Lloyd interviews University of California San Diego professor Steven P. Erie about Erie's book "Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California."
Metropolitan, or Met, as it is known is the 800-pound gorilla in Southern California's desert civilization and it faces daunting challenges in the coming decades.
Down in the Valley - August 08, 2008
Submitted by lgc_admin on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 14:13.In his August 8, 2008, monthly radio show "Down in the Valley" California journalist and commentator Lloyd Carter interviews Susana De Anda, co-executive director of the Community Water Center in Visalia, CA. De Anda says thousands of farm workers and poor people in the San Joaquin Valley, the nation's richest farming region, do no have access to clean drinking water.
