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Again guys...you act like it is some choice between the environment and the economy. If you continue to screw up the environment the economy will be even worse.
Again, salt water intrusion would absolutely devastate agricultural land near the Delta and contaminate the drinking water supply of the communities in that area...making the drought even worse.
Just like with the spotted owl-it is really not about the Delta smelt...but the function of the river, delta, and bay system that agriculture has been screwing with for the last 100 years.
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The drought IS a govt conspiricy.
Most water goes to agriculture, to irrigate desert areas that should never have been used for crops. Reduce that by one fourth and there is plenty of water for everyone else.
Stop worrying about the "Delta Smelt" - the freakin fish get more water than half the state.
Or, simply bring water to the west from the east which is always flooding. We can run a pipe from canada to the gulf, but not a water pipe from Ohio to AZ, NV and CA. Pleeeze.
Great idea - create water issues in the Great Lakes region so desert dwellers can continue to overpopulate an area that is not habitable in the long run.
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Great idea - create water issues in the Great Lakes region so desert dwellers can continue to overpopulate an area that is not habitable in the long run.
Well, wherever. I understand the east coast is getting like 18" of rain frm this hurricane - all that water, after flooding their homes, is lost. How often does the Ohio river or others overflow? Like annually. Just send us the water that is wasted, that's all.
Either that or we all all gonna have to MOVE IN with YOU!
If there's a "conspiracy" I'd assume "Moonbeam" and his buds' draining of something like 18(?) reservoirs over the past 20 years would have something to do with the "drought."
Most water goes to agriculture, to irrigate desert areas that should never have been used for crops. Reduce that by one fourth and there is plenty of water for everyone else.
Stop worrying about the "Delta Smelt" - the freakin fish get more water than half the state.
Or, simply bring water to the west from the east which is always flooding. We can run a pipe from canada to the gulf, but not a water pipe from Ohio to AZ, NV and CA. Pleeeze.
Heck. Maybe they should hold the Agua Caliente "Indians" (actually, these days, mostly Serbs from San Gabriel) to the wall until they allow water to be taken out of the Coachella Valley which sits over the second largest aquifer in North America. Or Orange County - third largest aquifer lies under there. None for LA or the Valley though!
Heck. Maybe they should hold the Agua Caliente "Indians" (actually, these days, mostly Serbs from San Gabriel) to the wall until they allow water to be taken out of the Coachella Valley which sits over the second largest aquifer in North America. Or Orange County - third largest aquifer lies under there. None for LA or the Valley though!
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