California’s Water Crisis

Canada Free Press ^ | 08/10/15 | Jack Dini

[Sean_Anthony]

There's much more to California's drought than lack of rain.

California is currently in the grip of one of the worst droughts in state history. Gov. Jerry Brown has signed an executive order that imposes water restrictions on residents, businesses, and farms across the state.

While the state is clearly experiencing this drought, the extreme weather shortages are an ongoing and man-made human tragedy—one that has been brought on by overzealous liberal environmentalists who continue to devalue the lives and livelihoods of California residents in pursuit of their own agenda. It comes down to this: which do we think is more important, families, or fish, asks Carly Fiorina. (1)

She adds, “With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could have been avoided. Droughts are nothing new in California—the state has suffered from them for centuries. The difference now is that government policies are making it much worse. Despite the awareness around this issue, liberals continue to develop and promote policies which allow much of California’s rainfall to wash out to sea.”

Specifically, these policies have resulted in the diversion of more than 300 billion gallons of water away from farmers in the Central Valley and into the San Francisco Bay in order to protect the Delta smelt, an endangered fish that environmentalists have continued to champion at the expense of Californians. This water is simply being washed out to sea, instead of being channeled to the people who desperately need it. (1)

[PoloSec]

The normal rain patterns will return, it always does may take a couple of years, but like the dust bowl of the 30’s nature repairs itself, man has nothing to do with it.

[MeganC]

I’m not obfuscating anything. Your points are spot on. But I’m also pointing out that the ‘solution’ to irrigating a desert should not be obtained by stealing someone else’s water, land, and heritage.