98 Collateral Damage

Running a processing plant requires the raw food products be in close proximity. When fields lay fallow, the food processing plan must receive its tomatoes from a greater distance and then it’s all about economics? Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life. 

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.  

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems 

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007 

97 A Farm Workers Worry

California agriculture is a thirty-billion-dollar business that is very much dependent on the strong work ethics of the farmworker community. I met two farm workers in the Central Valley during the 2009 drought. I remember how that drought turned farms upside down across the western side of the valley. Farmworkers, Carlos and Rubin, realized the stark reality that when there is no water, there is no work. Ditches were dry and they didn’t know when more water would come. How does a farmworker and their family know if they will have employment next year? Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life. 

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.  

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems 

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007 

94 Caretakers of Our Food

Joe Del Bosque knows. Farmers need soil.  California has the right climate. Farms need labor. But water is a farmers life blood. The diversity of the crops in California can only be accomplished with all of this. So, what happens when consecutive year drought happens?  Listen to what Joe Del Bosque Farms experienced in 2009 and just imagine what it is like for his farm this year.   Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life. 

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.  

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems 

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007 

129 Montana Water Rights

During a 19th Century quest to provide miners with a legal claim to their mineral rights was the emergence of a similar doctrine used for assigning water rights. Handling water issues in Montana started off with much controversy over the philosophical approach that should be followed. Do we share or do we follow a first in time, first in right philosophy? Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life.

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007

160 A Historian’s View of the Delta

Change is an understatement that is occurring in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta today. It used to be that the Delta controlled our communities but now our communities are changing the Delta. Conditions have reversed. Waters of the Delta are in the midst of a tug-of-war. If California is not careful, the largest inland delta on the western coast of the North American continent will be damaged. Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life.

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007

207 California is a Special Place

California farmers across the state are always talking about water. Steven Pastor, Executive Director of the Riverside County Farm Bureau, says farmers take great pride in growing safe and healthy food for people across the globe. Water plays a big and important role in the production of food and fiber for our country. When it comes to growing crops, the state of California is a special place. Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life.

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007

83 Adjusting to the Times

Farmers put it all on the line every single year because nobody really knows how much water will be available to feed the crops each year. Decisions are made many months before the seeds are planted.  John Lane is an Ohio farmer that has been growing crops since the mid-1950s. A lot of things have changed in the last 70 years; manmade and natural. John has learned to adjust. He has found a way to remain productive and considerate of his community.  Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life.

Stephen J. Baker, producer of Operation Unite’s Living Water® radio series, “Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing”, has completed 258 episodes from around the world since 2006. Each story is a real circumstance of one water relationship that exists in the world.  Contact Operation Unite® if you would like your organization’s water relationship to be shared with the masses.

Bringing People Together to Solve Water Problems

Operation Unite®; stevebaker@operationunite.co; 530-263-1007