SF leaders hate Trump enough they just voted to limit the city's water rather than do this

[snip] San Francisco and many of its suburbs get 85 percent of their water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, in the northwest corner of Yosemite National Park about 148 miles east of the city. The water that doesn't get piped to the Bay Area flows through the Tuolumne River, one of the San Joaquin's main tributaries and home to struggling salmon and steelhead populations. Some years as little as 11 percent of the Tuolumne's flow stays in the river, and the state water board says it must increase that figure to stave off an "ecological crisis."

Hetch Hetchy is a delicate issue for San Francisco. Congress approved the damming of the river in 1913, and environmentalists have been fighting ever since to tear it out. The group Restore Hetch Hetchy met over the summer with Ryan Zinke, Trump's Interior secretary.

City officials say replacing Hetch Hetchy would cost billions - and they're worried San Francisco could face severe shortages if the state's plan to alter flows on the Tuolumne is approved.

[snip] For months, San Francisco, a hotbed of anti-Donald Trump sentiment, has found itself in the awkward position of being aligned with his administration over California water policy.

On Tuesday, the city's leaders said the alliance was unbearable.

In an 11-0 vote, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors agreed in a resolution to support the State Water Resources Control Board's proposal to leave more water in the San Joaquin River and its tributaries to benefit struggling fish populations. The supervisors' vote is subject to veto by Mayor London Breed, although the board could override the veto.

The vote splits the city from the Trump administration and instead moves its support to a state plan that its utilities commission warns could lead to severe drinking water shortages for its nearly 884,000 residents.

The resolution explicitly says the city must divorce itself from the Trump administration and its congressional allies such as Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, who's branded the state plan a "water grab." The Trump administration has vowed to sue the state if the so-called Bay-Delta plan goes forward, saying it would interfere with the operation of key reservoirs owned by the federal government in the San Joaquin Valley.

"Under the cloud of climate change denial and anti-science populism, the debate around the Bay-Delta Plan has transcended the realm of rational, environmental discourse toward a political and populist, anti-conservation rally cry, fueled by the strategic lobbying of a federal Republican administration aiming to destabilize California's status as a Democratic stronghold," the resolution says.

Hillary says they cant be civil until the Democrats are in power.

Trump should make a speech strongly opposing suicide.

I see that they have cut off their nose. Good! That’ll sure teach Trump!

“...On Tuesday, the city’s leaders said the alliance was unbearable. In an 11-0 vote, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors agreed in a resolution to support the State Water Resources Control Board’s proposal to leave more water in the San Joaquin River and its tributaries to benefit struggling fish populations....”

Here is unhinged, insane HATE. Hello San Freakcisco — here is what is running YOUR city. The politics of HATE overriding the needs of the people. Vote disaster — vote DemocRAT.

Obviously fish are more important than people — in SF anyway.

How are they going to hose piss and feces off the sidewalk ?

What will they do to wash off the sidewalks littered with feces??

It’ll be tough to remove the visual ring around the reservoir.

SF (like LA) needs to buck up and go to running desalinization plants to get potable water from the nearby ocean/bay.

Let 'em drink Evian!

If they’re determined to die of thirst, I say let ‘em.

Poor struggling fish!

I concur. If SF is going to practice what they preach, then they need to tear down Hetch Hetchy. I am willing to bet that if they did a man on the street interviews of the people of SF (in other words not tourists) most would not even have a clue where their water actually comes from. But they are about to find out that they have destroyed a beautiful section of Yosemite National Park for their own purposes. Things are about to get really real for those rich snobs that think that they are superior to the rest of the state.

And why they are at it, stop letting LA grab water out of the Colorado River, the Owens Valley, and the San Joaquin Valley.

Many years ago, when I visited SF I found the tap water to be remarkably good, especially in comparison to LA area water. I was told the water came from Yosemite. Nice to see they’re planning to do away with it.

It’s good they did this before all of the Blue Wave has voted. Perhaps a few more can be shook from the Liberal Nut Tree or at least get disgusted and stay home.

Send all the illegals to SF and see how fast that water is used up.

They wouldn’t have a water problem if there weren’t so many illegals.

The resolution explicitly says the city must divorce itself from the Trump administration and its congressional allies such as Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, who's branded the state plan a "water grab."

I guess that none of the city's leaders have seen the movie, Forrest Gump.

"Stupid is as stupid does."

We know they’re not using much water flushing toliets.

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