Of course those folks want to kill farming in CA. And they want to drain the lakes to preserve a salmon run that has been essentially extinct for 50 years.
As far as the $20bil delta tunnels are concerned, they are not needed. Today the Sacramento river drains into the Delta, and there are pumps on the other side of the delta to restart the flow southward in a series of very, very large canals. (Thank you Ronald Reagan!)
But there was a lawsuit to protect the "Delta Smelt", a fingerling with no use, and it prevailed because they were getting chewed up in the pumps.
Zinke is doing the right thing here.
I was born here, raised here and have fished these rivers and lakes all my life. There's no going back.
Do not ness with the choo choo money. Water? Meh!
That little fish in not endemic to California and is not worth saving. That is the problem. The RATS and rabid leftist judges are putting the life of a fish before the health, life and liberty of millions of California “humans.” But then again, these bastards don’t like us humans.
I can’t understand why people in Kalifornia are willing to do such stupid stuff as kill off farming to protect some baitfish. Is it some kind of shared insanity?
desal working in carlsbad
I too grew up along the delta. The smelt is a bait fish that is not native to the delta. It was introduced by fisherman who were using it as bait to catch bass.
You want to save endangered fish, put them in aquariums. When the owners get sick of them, they will dump them into the rivers like the snakeheads, packs, jumping carp, etc
$287 this year for my car registration on an 8 year old car.
All that money is going to the trains.
You actually think our water system is going to get better?
My bro has just been constantly yelled at by his city for the last 2 years to quit watering his yard.
So he stopped.
Now they hit him with a $1600/month fine until he spends $6000 on his yard to put in desert stuff.
All his neighbors have had $3-500 water bills a month to keep their front yards alive.
The few that listened and stopped watering, were just hit with city redtags to redo their yards. With specific requirements for sand/dirt/rocks/plants/trees.....all in percentages. Like stupid percentages. 8% rock, 11.4% bushy plant.
Too many people wondering what’s in their neighbor’s poop. Why I left small towns. Now it’s here too.
Good thing I just learned I don’t have cancer today....or I’d encourage doing something stupid.
If only California was located near a large body of water that they could purify.
... oh wait.
One makes the wars worse by lying about them.
Newspapers have lately been doing a superb job about that.
Good. The human created dust bowl needs to end
Ping
California democrats are perfectly capable at mucking everything up all by themselves.
The SoCal folks need to pay for massive Desalination Plants, cut their birthrate to zer0, or move.
..... FACT ..... It has been over 50 Years since any major Reservoir has been built in California .....
.... In the mean time .... Environmental activists have guaranteed that a huge chunk of precious life giving water is diverted out into the ocean to save various obscure miniature fish and bugs. Thus creating the water shortage in this state and leaving many crop areas bone dry.
...... But, that is apparently a secret that only people that bother doing any research would know ..... instead of Orgasmically listening to the Liberal Talking Point Garbage that the Useful Idiots lap up into their vapid minds in this state.
Complicated my azz. How hard is it down south in Southern CA to put in reservoirs?
Some might not understand, but from the mountains to the ocean there are several rivers, some of which are concrete. When it rains tens of billions of gallons every hour flow directly to the ocean...I’ve seen the water nearly 20+ feet almost as high as some of the over-passes moving fast right to the coastal waters.
And if water is such an issue in CA, why have the Democrat stooges running the state encouraged and aided and abetted millions of illegals to enter the state? They consume water like everyone else.
The problem isn’t the water, it’s the deranged idiot Democrats.
Straw Man! Straw Man!
Maybe the smelts taste good all fried whole in the pan.
Screw 'em. They get 7 gallons a day each with their water ration card.
So in essence, they are admitting, by complaint, that having a detached, central government dictate local policies is a bad idea? They need to be very careful here. They'll be excommunicated from the Politburo before long. That is, if liberals were capable of recognizing hypocrisy and irony.
Blaming Trump for their self-inflicted problems.