Posted on 08/31/2018 6:25:47 PM PDT by Mariner
Anyone who has spent much time in California knows that our water policies and politics are immensely complicated and contentious.
Leave it to the Trump administration to muck up the water wars even more.
His Bureau of Reclamation told state officials on Aug. 17 that it wants to renegotiate the landmark 1986 agreement for the sprawling federal and state water projects and how they pump water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
The goal is to get more water to Central Valley farmers, at the expense of millions of Southern California residents, The Sacramento Bee’s Dale Kasler reports.
This unexpected move follows a threat by the Trump administration to sue over a state proposal, announced in July, to reallocate water in the San Joaquin River and its three tributaries, the Tuolumne, Merced and Stanislaus.
The state says leaving more water in the rivers to flow through the Delta to the ocean would ease an “ecological crisis” for fish. But it would mean less water for farmers and nearly 3 million people who live from the Bay Area to Modesto, so Valley farmers and many local officials are lambasting the proposal. Later this year, the state expects to release a reallocation plan for the Sacramento River watershed.
At the same time, there’s the continuing controversy over Gov. Jerry Brown’s plans for gargantuan tunnels to move water under the Delta to Central Valley farms and to Southern California cities. He says the $20 billion project would help endangered fish and ensure a more reliable water supply, but opponents question its cost and feasibility.
After critics raised a huge stink, legislators canceled a hearing on Thursday – the next-to-last day of the session – on extensions to water contracts needed to help finance the tunnels.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Or deport all the illegals
Good add to the menu of choices.
There are likely others to pick amongst.
The SoCal folks need to pay for massive Desalination Plants,
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Israel has been doing it for a long time but smaller population. 8.5 mil.
Bottoms up! (re your good news).
Not before everything within 50 miles of the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco falls into the ocean or the idiots will move here.
..... FACT ..... It has been over 50 Years since any major Reservoir has been built in California .....
.... In the mean time .... Environmental activists have guaranteed that a huge chunk of precious life giving water is diverted out into the ocean to save various obscure miniature fish and bugs. Thus creating the water shortage in this state and leaving many crop areas bone dry.
...... But, that is apparently a secret that only people that bother doing any research would know ..... instead of Orgasmically listening to the Liberal Talking Point Garbage that the Useful Idiots lap up into their vapid minds in this state.
Complicated my azz. How hard is it down south in Southern CA to put in reservoirs?
Some might not understand, but from the mountains to the ocean there are several rivers, some of which are concrete. When it rains tens of billions of gallons every hour flow directly to the ocean...I’ve seen the water nearly 20+ feet almost as high as some of the over-passes moving fast right to the coastal waters.
And if water is such an issue in CA, why have the Democrat stooges running the state encouraged and aided and abetted millions of illegals to enter the state? They consume water like everyone else.
The problem isn’t the water, it’s the deranged idiot Democrats.
“The SoCal folks need to pay for massive Desalination Plants, cut their birthrate to zer0, or move.”
It’s easier to steal it politically.
When you look at the map in this link about the U.N.'s Wildlands Project, the big plan to eliminate humans from that specific area becomes obvious. Jerry Brown and the RATS in the state's legislature will do anything possible to make that wildlife corridor a reality.
http://stewardsofthesequoia.org/Wildlands_Project.html
Straw Man! Straw Man!
“...... or the idiots will move here.”
...Or as we native Californians say “Move back home!”
As proven by the history of the last 100 years...
Maybe the smelts taste good all fried whole in the pan.
“It’d be too expensive to filter out the radionuclides from the seawater. Fukushima.”
That’s utter baloney.
Screw 'em. They get 7 gallons a day each with their water ration card.
I live in a small Iowa town.
We all know what is going on. No one really cares.
Even the old lady who sits and looks out with bino’s
So in essence, they are admitting, by complaint, that having a detached, central government dictate local policies is a bad idea? They need to be very careful here. They'll be excommunicated from the Politburo before long. That is, if liberals were capable of recognizing hypocrisy and irony.
Blaming Trump for their self-inflicted problems.
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