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To: shrinkermd

You mean like using immense amounts of water to grow rice in the most arid parts of California?


2 posted on 10/28/2007 8:37:25 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (When the government fears the People= Liberty. When the People fear the Government =Tyranny)
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To: RedStateRocker

Uhm... California rice is grown in the Sacramento River flood plains and generally irrigated by annual water overflow diversion.

Nobody is growing rice in the Mojave.


6 posted on 10/28/2007 9:32:33 AM PDT by Philistone (If someone tells you it's for the children, he believes that YOU are a child.)
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To: RedStateRocker

What about sending all that Northern California water
south to enable huge subdivisions built in Southern California fire zones.


7 posted on 10/28/2007 10:03:09 AM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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