What is not being said in this article is that the ‘solution’ to keeping arid regions farming is to shut down the farms in the northern part of the valley (where the water is) and then send it south.
The Bay Delta ‘Conservation’ Plan (BDCP) will take 175,000 acres of delta farmland and change it into ‘habitat’. This is being done because when all the fresh water gets taken away from the Sacramento River delta then that delta will become a salt water wasteland so far as farming is concerned.
So 175,000 acres of farmland gets seized in eminent domain and 40,000 people get evicted from their towns, homes, and farms. All so another set of farmers can continue to farm in a desert. Oh, and so Los Angeles’ Metropolitan Water District can have more water. Can’t have the Hollywood elites with brown lawns, can we?
FReepers: Be careful what you think you’re supporting here. When you’re on the same side as Hollywood and Governor Jerry Brown you need to be asking yourselves what’s wrong with this picture!
[FReepers: Be careful what you think you’re supporting here]
You are obfuscating the fact that for the last 30 years environmentalist in CA have been on jihad to remove dams and impoundments that were in place to provide storage and aquifer recharge. Also in the mix were 20 billion in bonds sold to provide funding for water projects that would have mitigated much of the central valley issues. The money was siphoned away and no projects were built.