water pirates (Sacramento, Bakersfield, Tehachapi: agricultural, farmers, counties)

[goofyboy]

What gives all those so-cal farmers the balls to think that we should just cut a canal thats as wide as two football fields out of the Sacramento river before it hits the san jauquin delta to pump a bunch of much needed nor-cal water down to southern california to water crops that are mostly shiped out of the state after harvest.

MOD CUT

[DMenscha]

Most of the agricultural water use south of the Tehachapi mountains is provide by the colorado river especially in the imperial valley. The CA aqueduct supplies quite a few counties above Bakersfield on it's way to SoCal too.

The CA aqueduct mostly supplies water for domestic use in SoCal, but I think your comments about the peripheral canal are spot on.