Ruling to protect delta smelt may force water rationing in Bay Area

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/09/01/MNPCRT83Q.DTL ^

[chessplayer]

"Cities around the Bay Area face the possibility of mandatory water rationing next year as a result of a federal court decision Friday to protect a rare fish found only in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, state officials and water experts said."

"The decision, which could cut by up to a third the amount of water drawn from the delta, will definitely force conservation measures and, in the end, could be the most far-reaching decision ever made under endangered species laws, according to experts."

[Cuttnhorse]

Good...now the rest of the unwashed masses will have a better understanding of the kind of crap we in the mountain west have been dealing with for decades.

[Paleo Conservative]

I think the Hetch Hetchy canyon should be restored.

[chessplayer]

http://www.hetchhetchy.org/artistic_visions/bierstadt_holyoke.html

[edcoil]

Let the smelt pay the taxes and bills for government if the government feels they are better then humans.

[PGR88]

Do it! Do it! Do it! Pleeeeeease!

[skeeter]

Imagine all the water that Calif would save if we sent the millions of illegals currently living here home.

Rationing might not even be necessary.

[mefistofelerevised]

I’m not into painting much, but the one on that link is spectaclar.

[Uncle Hal]

The inmates are running the insane asylum.

[Stop Liberalism]

Are these things edible?

[knarf]

Is this a delta that has been in inexistence since before man decided to build and cultivate the area, or is this something that occured after men started to inhabit the area?

If since after men's influence ... was this delta more or less pronounced?

The reason I ask is ... if this 'rare' fish came because of what men have done .... THEY WERE NOT ALWAYS HERE AND CAME FROM SOMEPLACE ELSE.

Which means, this is not the ONLY place the smelt are ..

Therefore ...

They're not endangered and this all so much Smelt$h!t.

( .. and if you've ever smelt$h!t .... )

My question is real, but the end ..... 'couldn't resist.

[gcruse]

Alright, who delta that smelt?

[kbennkc]

So thats what I smelt last time I was there .

[gcruse]

If you liked that, check out the work of Thomas Cole.

[OpusatFR]

Does Hoist and Petard mean anything to the liberaties?

~Snicker~

[B4Ranch]

Here's the problem.

The Judge wants to make sure that every person in every agency in our state and federal government understands *the realities of global warming.*

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>>Environmentalists contend a limited water supply might impress upon the farmers the realities of global warming, thereby forcing them to grow more sustainable crops and install more efficient irrigation systems

[BfloGuy]

Does Hoist and Petard mean anything to the liberaties?

If there's another city more deserving of water rationing to save an endangered species than San Francisco; I can't think of it.

Well there is D.C., of course, but that would be dreaming.