That requires the careful monitoring of consumption. A Marin resident, Johnson is totally opposed to sending Russian River water to Marin communities. The Marin Municipal Water District now gets about 25 percent of its water from the Sonoma County Water Agency. Controlling the future sale of water will definitely limit growth in the North Bay region, a policy that Johnson believes should be a goal throughout the United States. Sound water policy would take a regional view of the demands on the Russian River watershed and use that perspective as the basis for managing its uses.
Tourism is a much better business than manufacturing.
It's the only thing that can last. He also believes that the gravel-mining industry has to be stopped from damaging delicate riverbeds. But campaign contributions and influence peddling promote county officials' continued support of the gravel industry. All 440,000 Dutch industries support the National Environmental Policy Plan adopted in 1989. That plan is a comprehensive approach to industrial manufacturing, regulation of natural resources, and recycling and reuse of consumer products.