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California Shuts Off Water To Farmers To Save Fish
Technocracy.News ^ | Kary Grimes

Posted on 06/06/2022 10:48:51 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

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To: frithguild

They do it in Arkansas but the intensive rice agriculture has damaged their aquifers as they have done so in California as well. Intensive monoculture is harmful. Decentralized farming would help small farmers and be more environmentally friendly. Things would cost a bit more but with fewer harmful externalities monus big agricture..


21 posted on 06/06/2022 11:21:19 AM PDT by 31R1O
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To: dowcaet

That’s what happens when you farm in arid climates and depend on .gov for water supply.


22 posted on 06/06/2022 11:26:09 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski; All
California isn't even trying to use its 10th Amendment-protected powers to serve the people imo.

Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters in all states need to rescue California from its renegade government by electing Trump-endorsed federal leaders in 2022 that will make sure Californians get their constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.

"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphases added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

Insights welcome.

23 posted on 06/06/2022 11:27:40 AM PDT by Amendment10 ( )
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Environmentalsm is just a cover story for psychotic murderers.


24 posted on 06/06/2022 11:30:05 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Solution:

1. Find out where the water is being diverted.
2. destroy or create dam (and/or water bypass) as necessary to divert water to needed destination(s).
3. get crops planted and or use water as needed until attempts to reverse process are done.
4. Rinse, repeat.

Sound crazy? It’s worked before. See: Klamath Falls c.2001

just my $0.02
jimjohn - OUT.
(P.S., Oh - do you really think calling a congress critter or state rep is going to do any good? See tagline.)


25 posted on 06/06/2022 11:30:40 AM PDT by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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To: frithguild

So you don’t know anything about farming. You just know everything.

Check.


26 posted on 06/06/2022 11:33:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Save the fish, starve the people.

Brilliant.

5.56mm


27 posted on 06/06/2022 11:34:01 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

We are probably beyond the “saving fish” argument at this point...the DROUGHT that is going on in DESERT regions of the western US seems to be close to making water for every day living for people that located to a DESERT region a thing of the past.


28 posted on 06/06/2022 11:34:28 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: griswold3
That’s what happens when you farm in arid climates and depend on .gov for water supply.

This is what "sustainability" really means. Just because you CAN doesn't always mean you SHOULD.
29 posted on 06/06/2022 11:36:08 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Easier than burning down food processing plants... those liberal... so much smarter than the rest of us.

Did they ‘save’ the snail darters too?


30 posted on 06/06/2022 11:40:12 AM PDT by GOPJ (It's NOT 'gun violence' it's 'CRIMINAL VIOLENCE'- RAPE isn't penis violence - it's criminal violence)
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To: frithguild

Water is abundant in CA also, its just that most of it is allowed to run off. How would Louisiana farmers react if radical lefties took power and allowed >50% of the water to return to the ocean?


31 posted on 06/06/2022 11:45:38 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“As a former rice farmer in northern California”

Why the PHOOK would anybody grow RICE in northern California?

It grows like weeds in many states in the south where water is plentiful. YEah, yeah special varieties , enviro yadda yadda . . .

Without your TAX PAYER PAID water infrastructure & subsidy you’d be out of business.

Grow Sinsemilla, like all your sensible neighbors.


32 posted on 06/06/2022 11:48:31 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Macoozie

It’s not exactly Northern California. It’s the Sacramento Delta, one of America’s great rice growing areas.


33 posted on 06/06/2022 11:51:26 AM PDT by Publius
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To: griswold3

Never been to Northern California have you, it’s far from arid,the sac River flows a long way north almost to oregon


34 posted on 06/06/2022 11:57:03 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!you)
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To: ConservativeMind; All

“This thread needs you to defend the fish.”

Happily.

But it’s not just fish. It’s an extended riparian habitat throughout the Big Valley. And it’s being destroyed.

Principally by too much agriculture.

If you folks want almonds, or rice or peaches or walnuts and find the price too high because we allocate 50% of our water to flowing rivers, then plant it yourself.

California has too much ag. It’s not sustainable.

Deal with it, because on this issue the left and MOST of the right in CA is united.


35 posted on 06/06/2022 11:58:58 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Remember the Klamath Falls 🐂💩 a few years back?


36 posted on 06/06/2022 12:00:59 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: PIF

“Water is abundant in CA also, its just that most of it is allowed to run off.”

You don’t know wtf you are talking about.

Or are deliberately lying.


37 posted on 06/06/2022 12:06:35 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Most of those farmers are not Dems.


38 posted on 06/06/2022 12:12:13 PM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I really think that they are afraid of us (power in numbers) and that is one reason they want guns taken away from us.


39 posted on 06/06/2022 12:21:36 PM PDT by Karoo
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To: Mariner

Well it used to be back when.


40 posted on 06/06/2022 12:25:22 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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