Um, it’s called a DROUGHT. How did we get to the place where people think they should be relieved of all natural consequences of life. OK, sure, divert the water. What happens when the drought continues? Divert MORE water? There are other affects of diverting that river, besides some endangered something or-others. (Besides, I’m getting pretty tired of diverting water so every damn homeowner in SoCal can have a purty swimmin’ hole.)
Time to pay attention people… nature has consequences. We can’t continually “beat it back”.
Just my two cents.
Missy Me
Wait, I asked the experts The guys at the Trout Underground. They know a heck of a lot more than me!
http://troutunderground.com The Trout Underground
The water issue has already cost us plenty of jobs in California: over-pumping from the Delta was one of the primary factors in the collapse of the salmon fishery, which has lead to two closed seasons in a row, and the ruination of our commercial and recreational salmon industries.
Those jobs don’t count?
Many of the farms in question receive massive government subsidies to grow water-intensive crops in the Cental Valley (is that what our tax dollars are for), and given the record amount of water pumped from the Delta the last five years – while commercial salmon fishermen saw their boats and homes repossessed – it’s clear the water in the Central Valley is over-promised, and that growing rice and alfalfa in an arid environment simply isn’t sustainable.
Greg Farber
See the UNEP Global Biodiversity Assessment Report–Agenda 21–Sustainable Development, and look up those Unsustainable Items in the Report, the items you listed above are in that report…They did this to you intentionally, and further more they don’t care..Page 728 of the report states Modern Farm Production Systems are Unsustainable…Farmlands Range lands, Fisheries, Modern Hunting…. Land use that serves human needs… WAKE UP MAN… http://www.freedomadvocates.org