Ventura and Its Phantom Water
May 14, 2022 We have a spooky unnatural phenomenon here in Ventura – – an invisible supply of water that the civic powers can barter with, even in its ghostly immaterial form. That’s what our City Council has just negotiated with a municipality not too far away. We will lease a partial allotment of our state water supply, which does not actually exist, to San Gorgonio, so we do not have to pay full price for a yearly promise of water, and we keep our place in line to get it,
