Stewart and Lynda Resnick	US Senator Dianne Feinstein

There are several key figures at work in profiteering from California's beleaguered water system, but here we highlight some recent and historical media coverage concerning the activities of:

• Stewart and Lynda Resnick, owners of Roll Corporation and Paramount Farms (and owners in the Kern Water Bank Authority).
• US Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-California

In September 2009, Resnick wrote to the Senator who wrote to the National Academy of Sciences to request a scientific evaluation of the Delta smelt and salmon biological opinions that regulate Delta pumping currently.

Author Mark Arax published an extended profile of and interview with Stewart Resnick in his recent book, West of the West (published in 2009, pages 17 through 26).

You may use our search engine in the left margin of our web site to search our water news archives on these and other subjects, or visit our Archived News section. Here are some significant recent article links concerning these individuals:

• A Run on the Water Bank
• Feinstein's Big Checks From Corporate Farmer
• Corporate farmer calls upon political allies to influence delta dispute
• How Limousine Liberals, Water Oligarchs and Even Sean Hannity Are Hijacking Our Water Supply
• Farming's Power Couple (the Resnicks) (from the Contra Costa Times, May 2009)
• Water Heist: How Corporations are Cashing In On California's Water from Public Citizen.
• Massive Farm Owned by L.A. Man Uses Water Bank Conceived for State Needs
• State bond lets firms profit from water - SF Chronicle
• Standing Up to Big Water's Astroturf Groups 
• Big Ag's Power Couple Betting on Brown, Feinstein
• The Looming Water Disaster That Could Destroy California, and Enrich Its Billionaire Farmers
• LA Billionaire Sued Over California Water Sales