California Shuts Off Water To Farmers To Save Fish

Technocracy.News ^ | Kary Grimes

[Yollopoliuhqui]

My crystal ball shows many tractors blocking I-5

[ScottinVA]

Not in Colusa county, they didn’t.

[Gigantor]

Ooh! That stings.

[absalom01]

And the majority of Californians want 50% of the water to flow through the rivers, keeping alive the riparian habitats of the Big Valley. A great number of conservatives among them.

I have yet to meet a conservative, even from California, who thinks the state's insane water policy makes a lick of sense.  Perhaps a majority of the state's voters, living and dead, support wasting half of the fresh water attempting to restore an imagined pre-19th century riparian idea.  I think it's dumb, and Cali is going to pay the price at some point.

Interesting to see that your hostility to almond farming extends to rice and Ag in general.  Does that same hostility apply to the state's weed crop as well?

[Mariner]

There is more ag in CA than can be sustained.

It is not possible to refuse land use for ag.

So the water is allocated. 50% for the rivers. 40% for ag. 10% for potable use.

When ag runs out of their 40%, tough shit.

And I know dozens of conservatives in CA. You don’t know any. I grew up with these guys, went to school with them.

Ask any family farmer at 640acres or less and they’ll tell you the problem lies with the enormous corporate farms growing export crops.

Such as almonds...80% go out of the country, only 5% is consumed in CA. Just as most of Calusa’s rice crop goes to Asia.

“Farmers” were not desperate for water 30 years ago, and under the same allocations.

It’s the explosion of corporate farms that is demanding the change in allocation.

Great farm land. Not enough water.

Again, you don’t know any conservatives...or farmers...in CA. And you don’t know shit about this subject.

[Mat_Helm]

The State Water Project SWP and federal Central Valley Project CVP were made to prevent flooding and provide water to agriculture and never was intended for fish. The Democrats, socialists, and environmental wackos have taken over government and destroying everything within their grasp. Can’t believe I am watching the whole world go insane and soon every institution will fail, people will starve, criminals will run rampant, and everything will come to a screeching halt.

[gitmo]

Thanks for the post.

[frithguild]

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

Quite a reaction to someone who simply asks questions about the discussion topic in a public hearing. At the same time, you intimate you have illuminating knowledge that you have not shared.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So you just know everything.

[frithguild]

I don’t get what you’re trying to say.