Posted on 01/10/2025 10:53:59 AM PST by grundle
Experts lay blame primarily on the state's handling of its forestry management and a lesser-known problem, the state's outdated water reserves system. California's existing reservoirs can only hold so much water, and many were built in the mid-20th century.
Last year, the state experienced record-breaking rainfall after an atmospheric river event, but the existing water infrastructure faced difficulties managing the sudden influx of water. A significant portion of that rainfall was dumped into the ocean.
Ring also pointed to "environmentalist extremists" in the state who have pushed for heavier regulations like the Endangered Species Act, which requires freshwater to flow through rivers and into the Pacific Ocean to protect the endangered delta smelt and salmon. The mandates restrict how much water can be diverted to storage, even during wet years.
California voters passed Proposition 1 in 2014, also known as the Water Quality, Supply and Infrastructure Improvement Act, which authorized $2.7 billion in bonds to increase the state's water storage capacity through building new reservoirs and groundwater storage facilities. Yet as of January 2025, no new reservoirs have been completed under Prop. 1.
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they’ve been taking down dams so some endangered species will stop their decline.
It’s apparently what the people voted for when they elected the people they elected.
Water management is not a sexy subject. Take care of it and it’s like a tree falling in the forest. Nobody notices.
In the meantime the left is free to bring up their own problems that need to be addressed like-you name it. We’ll always be on defense.
LOOK AT THE GOOD SIDE OF IT! The Smelt fish are doing well now the reservoirs and dams once used for fire suppression, have been destroyed and drained. and the brush was for nesting birds and ground animals so the Greenies could go out and commune with Mother Nature!
Now Mother Nature has bit them in the butt big time. And where is the LA mayor> In Ghana Africa weeping at the slave pens, wailing at the Door of no Return and blubbering about how terrible the US is. But when her tax payer paid vacation is over she will hop on an air conditioned jet and return to the land she hates.
“The Smelt fish are doing well”
Or as Jessie Waters puts it “fish you can’t even eat”.
The money has been there to capture water. Voters passed a bond years ago. Perhaps a Republican Governor would have acted on the need for more water storage, but that as they say, is now water in the Pacific.
Total failure of State and local government.
But spending money on reservoirs and water infrastructure would use up money that democrats want to spend on more important projects, like DEI, providing cash, housing, free phones and other benefits for illegal aliens, and most important the Magic Trillion Dollar Choo-Choo Train to Nowhere.
Lack of infrastructure was purposely planed by the radical eco nazis that run the State of CA.
“California rejects federal water proposal, lays out its vision for protecting endangered species and meeting state water needs”
From the article
For this reason, Gov. Gavin Newsom directed us earlier this year to turn the page on old binaries and develop a broad, inclusive water agenda.
Smiling while he boasts.
I wonder what he thinks looking back on that now...
The only real disaster is the democratic party disaster
At least the delta smelt is save at the loss of $$$$
The people that voted to save endangered species never thought they would be the endangered species
I doubt he cares at all.....there will be no holding him accountable for any of this awful mess he has set into motion.
When Californians elect Demonicrats they elect the destruction of their homes and their lives.
“They deliberately forbade adequate infrastructure.”
Then they blame “climate change”.
That is raw evil—not a mistake and not foolish.
safe
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