{"id":452225,"date":"2026-09-03T13:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452225\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:28:19","slug":"essay-offers-easy-and-wrong-answers-to-water-supply-shortage-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452225\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay offers easy (and wrong) answers to water supply shortage \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cProducing water can protect the Colorado River\u201d (Aug. 20): It is absolutely ridiculous to argue that the nation can \u201csolve its [water] supply problem the way the U.S. has overcome many great challenges \u2014 through innovation and competition.\u201d Water is the second most basic need (air being first). Medical care is also a basic need which has been thrown into \u201ccompetition\u201d and that\u2019s not working out too well. Today, electric energy is a basic need and that\u2019s really not working.<\/p>\n<p>When putting water into an open market, imagine SDG&amp;E&amp;W.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gregg Ferry, Carlsbad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cProducing water can protect the Colorado River\u201d (Aug. 20): It is absolutely ridiculous to argue that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-452225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}