[theDentist]

so astounding I can't help but laugh... thanks be that I don't live in that wacko state.

[BigTex5]

Welcome California to water restrictions like us in Texas.

[Red Badger]

Nothing like being slapped with a dead fish!...........

[The Blitherer]

Um...so what am I supposed to drink? Ocean water?

[GOP_1900AD]

Has anyone every actually proved that the pumps suck in a significant number of fish? Most salmon head north up the Sacramento to spawn, not down into the Delta where the pumps are. Plus, if the intakes for those pumps did not screen out fish and other things in the water, they'd get fouled and the transported water would be putrid.

[Cold Heat]

OOOOOOhhhhh....Delta smelt! Yummy!

LOL!

[Zeroisanumber]

So lawns will get a little brown and pools will go empty, big deal. SoCal could use a little water discipline, they're drinking the Colorado River dry every year.

[lucky american]

Water?...fish...water?...fish... water?...fish

[Publius6961]

The irony is that Sodom-by-the-Bay and El Lay pretty much decide elections in California.

People get the government they deserve.

If agriculture in the California Central Valley withers, they can always get their veggies from Mexico...

[AZRepublican]

The problem isn't water or water pumps - these are symptoms - but lousy government who doesn't give a damn about governing wisely.

I doubt there will ever again be a government in the US that governs to avoid problems rather than create them.

[highlander_UW]

It's been decades since I lived in CA, but as I recall, a significant percentage if not the majority of water in So. Cal. comes from No. Cal...this could close down So. Cal.

[marsh2]

There may not be an appreciation of the "salmon people." To them, there is nothing more important than salmon - not humans, communities, electricity, farms, lumber or minerals. I live in a county where what is left of the economy is based on agriculture, tourism and timber (plywood.) There is little other industry except for water bottling plants. You would think I was evil incarnate if I dared utter that to our county, salmon is a secondary concern. The Water Quality Board can't even grasp why we would want to expend our very limited Road Dept. money on public safety where people actually live than out on some landslide or erosive bank in a salmon channel in the hinterlands. Salmon people have no perspective or awareness that there could be other priorities. It's nuts.

[Minutemen]

Another brain-dead Federal judge who obviously has a basement full of EVIAN.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Wake Up out there...It's NOT JUST CALIFORNIA...

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A Pacific Northwest utility must build new fish ladders and take other steps to help salmon swim freely past four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River if it wants to renew its license to produce electricity, federal fisheries agencies said Tuesday. The cost of the ladders, turbine screens and fish bypasses was estimated at nearly $300 million. The high cost could boost pressure on the utility, PacifiCorp, to remove the dams altogether -- something environmentalists have been pushing for. Removing the dams would open access to 350 miles of salmon spawning habitat that have been blocked...
Feds require fish ladders at Ore. dams (at four hydroelectric dams on Klamath River) OREGON

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"Banning DDT wasn’t about birds. It was about power. The sooner the record on DDT is set straight, the sooner the environmentalists’ ill-gotten "authority" will be seen for what it is."
Bald Eagle-DDT Myth Still Flying High

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

San Diego and L.A. are gonna rue the day this envirowhacko judge took the bench.

"There'll be imminent ruage. Imminent ruage."

--Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Twister"

[NicknamedBob]

Not to worry. As soon as we get the oceans warmed up and the ice melted, they'll have all the water they need.

And fish, too.

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/environment/waterworld.html