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One big earthquake later when the delta levees fail, just like hurricane Katrina, and the delta is broken for years and the California aqueduct shuts down because the water has turned to salt, and California dries up and goes back to the 1850's. Morons! The canal should have been built decades ago.

The plan here in each of the options is to build the Peripheral Canal AND let the delta fall to pieces and allow more salt to intrude as levves are destroyed or allowed to fail in order to create more marshland.

So the farmers in the delta get screwed and LA gets their water. Obviously, you don't live in the area affected by this, do you?

The plan you reference will never happen. Even so, many so called farmers in the area already fallow their land and sell their water to the Bay area and northern communities that have shallow ground water problems, with some water also going to SoCal. Areas like Yuba County, Glen Colusa, Yolo, Contra Costa, and many others sell their water. A lot of rice is not being planted. The levee break from two years ago has still not pumped all the water out of the island created and some of this land may never be farmed again. A massive return to wetlands is what the environ wackos want. Central Valley farmers already are being devastated compared to north delta farmers who have 100% of their water allocation this year and a great deal would gladly sell their water to South delta farmers if they could move the water, but the export pumps are held back because of ESA smelt ruling by the federal court.

So, NO! I don't cry for north delta farmers, but I do for south delta farmers who are being screwed as we speak and its not an iff or but, it is happening right now. State contractors have already lost over 500,000 acre feet of water this year and only have 35% of their water. Federal contractors only 45% of their water mostly from the Judge Wangers ruling and partially from a very dry March and April hydrology. The Governor and most AQWA members are not going to let the levees fall apart and most of the left wing democratic legislature is in the hip pocket of environmental groups who force the politicians to earmark and spend wasted billions of dollars on the levees and will attempt to block the canal. Every agency in the State agrees that a canal is needed in some form or other and it will happen eventually, but not for Metropolitan water district or Socal area, but for central valley farming. Only if common sense prevails.