“The present priorities, that send half of the water in the system uselessly out to sea deserve more than a shrug of the shoulders and contempt for those betrayed by their overlords who now control the government in Sacramento, imho.”
All Californians paid for the entire water distribution system, except for that which was paid by the feds.
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.
Some of us have seen great rivers flowing the wrong direction...with brackish sewage. I cite the confluence of the Tuolumne and the San Joaquin in the fall of 1975 as an example. When the fish were considered poisonous.
If you want that, create it in your own state. Grow your own food.
We have too much ag in CA.
I left California 37 years ago and have never been back. Good riddance.
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?