California Water Wars

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[publius911]

California lakes and canals are a testament to our fathers’ using nature to bring water, power, and prosperity to the Central Valley—often under the tutelage of a past generation of scientists, engineers, and researchers from the coastal universities. These visionaries saw the massive federal West Side [of the California Central Valley] irrigation projects as the logical twentieth-century successors to the smaller state and local enterprises that had irrigated the East Side in the nineteenth century. But today, coastal scientists have tired of such visions. They consider them destroyers of nature, not catalysts of wealth, and so they use their academic expertise to thwart them.

[publius911]

Although a bit dated, this article is a personal neutral dispassionate and fact filled article presenting the historical, political and physical history of the developing California Central Valley dust bowl.
Exacerbated annually, I might add, by the dummest legislature in California history.

[Inyo-Mono]

I might add, by the dummest legislature in California history.

The same legislate that just passed a bill requiring that all guns sold in California must go through an FFL dealer, even though that law was already in the books, and has been for years.