Posted on 09/15/2022 3:55:11 PM PDT by cuz1961
After years of less than normal rainfall and terrible management by the State of California and the federal government, water has been CUT OFF to many Northern California water agencies and farms.
Most farmers were FORCED to severely restrict planting, and many will not have a crop at all. Worse, the federal government is CUTTING OFF available water MIS-SEASON from farmers in the Klamath Basin. This comes AFTER the INVESTMENT was made to plow, apply fertalizer, seed, herbicides , and PAY for what little WATER that they did receive. Those farmers invested in a potential crop either from bank LOANS or their own SAVINGS. Now, without water due to an unexpected water GRAB, THESE CROPS WIL DIE and the investment will FAIL. I spoke to President Biden briefly after the State of the Union speech about this very prospect. It's crippling to farmers in this position and a GIANT WASTE of all the efforts they made to plant this year. This reduces the supply of food in a time when the President said he anticipated food shortages along with the already high grocery prices.
Water shutoff are also an ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER as the western shorebird and waterfowl migration starts and unplanted farms SEVERELY CURTAIL the normal HABITAT for them.
The Biden and Newsom administrations' policies have resulted in poor water management and their primary focus on water temperature in the rivers for FISH ONLY makes things WORSE.
I led an effort to have the Bureau of Reclamation STORE MORE WINTER STORM WATER in Lake Shasta, and to have the State DWR do the same in Lake Oroville. They IGNORED my warnings and that of many other public officials across the state that joined my effort in Congress , and NOW we see the results. By FAILING TO STORE THE WATER when it was raining and during early snowmelt runoff, ALL of California has a NEEDLESSLY low water supply. This resulted in MJOR CUTS to agriculture and water restrictions for people in cities.
Meanwhile, environmental water flows through the Bay Delta are barely curtailed or even INCREASED.
2021/2022 was NOT the worst water year in modern history, but it HAS BEEN one of the WORST for water MANAGEMENT by GOVERNMENT entities.
Domestic home wells and farm wells are going dry, in part DUE TO no water IN OUR CANALS to help recharge the groundwater table.
Without agriculture bolstering our economy, as well as the environmental benefits ag water brings to the MANY SPECIES, the negative effects are piling up. Just take a drive through the fallow fields adjacent to the Sacramento River up and down the Sacramento Valley or down I-5 and Hwy 99 through the San Joaquin Valley.
The LACK of action TO BUILD ADDITIONAL WATER STORAGE and proper MANAGEMENT of what WATER WE DO HAVE is costing us jobs. It's costing Families their livelihoods and the worst part is, THIS COULD HAVE ALL BEEN AVOIDED.
U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa is leading the effort to improve ground water supply by using winter storm water to recharge ground water instead of LETTING THE WATER FLUSH TO THE OCEAN.
U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa secured $2.2 billion in funding in the form of low-cost loans to start construction of Sites Resivour.
U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa worked with Congressional leaders to successfully maintain $134 million in annual funding for California water storage and the largest appropriation for Sites Resivour ever.
U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa led an EFFORT with every California Republican member to MAXIMIZE winter water STORAGE to FILL Shasta, Oroville and other Northern California resivours every year BEFORE summer water delivery season.
U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa is working to FORCE the State and Federal Regulators to use ACTUAL science to update water management rules and MAXIMIZE WATER STORAGE.
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So there it is. The water was pissed away to the ocean.
The farmers were denied water after they planted , bushwaked,
with no chance to harvest and recoup costs much less turn a profit. How many will be foreclosed on ?
This was avoidable, this was intentional.
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Is the CA a-holes had spent the money they wasted on idiotic wind farms and solar panels on desalinization plants they would have more water than they would know to do with
Dude.
.enough of the ignorance.
We
Have
Resivours
Plenty of storage space
We have enough space for 7 years of water for the whole state
2017 was a flood year.
We should have enough for everything with 2 years worth left.
We can and are trying to build the Sites Resivour for future growth needs
We have the water, or could of.
Did you read ?
They pissed it all away to the ocean !!!
Half the State is NOT desert.
Until the dams and resivours we had catastrophic flooding EVERY year , thats half the reason for the dams and resivours,,,FLOOD CONTROL.
We have a HUGE watershed, more than enough.
THEY ARE PISSING IT AWAY.
Well then it’s even worse.
Yes it is.
Sorry I was rude.
Desalination takes lots of power, CA. has I think 1 nuke plant left , the rest is hydroelectric power.
If they piss away all the water like they have been doing we won’t have the power to run any desalination plants.
If California quit pissing the water into the ocean and expanded the resivour system alot, they could generate the power needed to run desalination plants
that could provide
(desalinated ) water for the coastal cities of sourhern california ,
but they must stop pissing away the water first.
They are intentionally destroying agriculture, deconstructionist Marxists that they are , intent on turning California into a failed state to starve more Americans and turn our whole nation into a failed state , so they can usher in their global Marxist unicorn utopia.
Jmo
Doug’s Family Farm is in the shadow of the Oroville Dam.
No worries. I was shooting from the hip at a low hanging fruit. Something tells me if they had put a fraction of the money they are putting the stupid climate BS
Into Desalination research it could be done with much less energy.
Dougs district had 800 farms and ranchers that had their water robbed and sold out from under them.
800
It’s not about Doug.
It’s about his constituents.
OK. Thanks for that reminder.
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