One of the worst droughts in California’s history has devastated more than a half-million acres of the most fertile farmland in America. In communities like Sacramento, “water police” go from door to door to enforce conservation measures. There’s even a mobile “app” to report neighbors to city authorities so they can be fined for wasting water.
With the Sierra snowpack at 4% of normal as of May 20, Californians will desperately need what little water remains behind its dams this summer. Authorities have warned some towns like Folsom–home of Folsom Lake–to expect daily rationing of 50 gallons per person, a 60% cut from average household usage.
Yet last month the Bureau of Reclamation drained Folsom and other reservoirs on the American and Stanislaus rivers of more than 70,000 acre feet of water–enough to meet the annual needs of a city of half a million people–for the comfort and convenience of fish.
h/t Don
it must be difficult trying to live in a desert as if it were a rainforest. of course allowing government agencies to dictate how you live is also a bad idea.
One of the reasons for the food shortages and resultant double digit price increases, is the Cali-dumbocrats taking the south west irrigation off line for EPA funded impact studies about what farming has done to natural desert/semi-arid environments. Similar impacts on agricultural regions in the rocky mountain rain shadow have had predictable results in loss of critical livestock production. Green fascism is engineering a famine either intentionally or unintentionally.
think of the greenies as insurance salesmen..
and they make a living by reacquiring a percentage of your current income..
and the gorier the prediction the more money for them..
that makes you poorer..
win/win for them..
In every conversation that people are having within the state of California, it needs to be mentioned, that it is Democrats that are doing these things. It has to be pounded into the conversation, and in to peoples heads, as the media party won’t.
Climate change, anyone? Another Sahara in the making?
Oh it is intentional Occam, control the protein, communications and over regulate, along with constant arrests to instill fear and shazam, Alinsky and Marshall have won posthumously, along with all the other supporters and mentors of this current embarassment to the once great nation.
Things like this are the reason I am a Conservative. Only a government would have water cops out harassing citizens while at the same time throwing water away to save some FISH.
This is not a conspiracy, its not a miscalculation, and it isn’t stupidity. It is the natural state of any too-big-to-fail institution with no fiscal restraints. Its as inevitable as gravity.
You want to have a good place to live? TAX CUT NOW.
Fish are smarter than people. They don’t vote for the democrats.
Well this madness has infected the US Corps of Army Engineers as well.
Remember those Missouri watershed floods which extended into Canada’s Souris valley. Deliberate sabotage of flood control infrastructure to provide a spring flood pulse for fish etc.
Not just in California.
Makes ya wonder if indeed the New Orleans flooding was deliberate.
Stupid is as stupid does…
The craziness that infects the United States is simply mind blowing. But then I recall about 13 yrs ago while driving in a rainstorm across the San Fransico / Sacremento Bridge during a rainstorm and flipped a cigarette butt out the window…damn near got run off the road by incredibly angry motorists…strangely enough that evening, while having diner sitting at the lounge bar, I noticed the barman changing out a garbage can sized green plastic garbage bag full of wine/liquor bottles. I asked him where those bottle were destined for. He tells me to the dump.
Talk about Hypocrisy….as is most of the stupidity in the US. A Authoritarian country that is incredibly vengeful, prosecutorial and continually on a witch hunt for for thing or another..and lately against its own citizens.
Democracy…??? nah, Authoritarian..you bet.
I won’t even go there for a vacation nor drink their water.
Stalin would approve.
“If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” Ronald Reagan
Penn and Teller nail ’em here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC3CZBDz7Wg
Hey Steakman, I’d run you off the road as well. Rain or no rain, bad habits are hard to break, especially during dry seasons.
In what could be considered a partial contemporary followup to Hayek’s “Road to Serfdom”, Vaclav Klaus, former Czechoslovak president, writes in “Blue Planet in Green Shackles, Appendix A,
“Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism. This ideology preaches Earth and nature, and under the slogans of their protection – similarly to the old Marxists – wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning of the whole world.
The environmentalists consider their ideas and arguments to be an undisputable truth and use sophisticated methods of media manipulation and [public relations] campaigns to exert pressure on policymakers to achieve their goals. Their argumentation is based on the spreading of fear and panic by declaring the future of the world to be under serious threat. In such an atmosphere, they continue pushing policymakers to adopt illiberal measures; impose arbitrary limits, regulations, prohibitions, and restrictions on everyday human activities; and make people subject to omnipotent bureaucratic decision making. To use the words of Friedrich Hayek, they try to stop free, spontaneous human action and replace by their own, very doubtful human design.”
Tens of thousands of bureaucrats (4000 in Ottawa alone) are paid to enforce the protection of fish at any cost. The political justification comes from a range of interests such as keen fishermen from all political stripes to eco-loons and hordes of voters in between. Commercially caught Pacific Salmon cost, when all regulation and subsidization are built-in, many orders of magnitude higher than what you pay at the store. The No-Net-Loss principle presupposes an infinite value to something that sells for 6 to 10 dollars per pound.
Managing fugitive resources on public lands usually result in huge diseconomies. Thirty years ago I did an economic evaluation of the cost to the licencee of managing Blacktail Deer on a Tree Farm Licence on Northern Vancouver Island and found that based on the “planned” harvest numbers from the Fish and Wildlife branch and the costs imposed on the forest company to “manage” for such, the harvested deer were costing about $32.00 per pound on the hoof! The deer were / are not threatened and if the foresters did nothing to “enhance and protect”, there would be continuous deer populations more dependent on wolf populations than anything else.
Green theocracy leaves no room for economics nor humanity.
Given the endless insanity that is modern California, who’s to say that the fish aren’t the best ones to save?
Let us see now….
California in most of history was a desert, sort of western Arizona.
The name Arizona is self evident dry zone if you will.
If there were not all those many dams that make the nonexistent river in Los Angeles there would not be any agriculture.
Of course that is irrelevant argument so far as socialists/fascist can tell.
For them the only argument is, there was water and there is not water.
You wanna argue with that?
I’ll take the delta smelt over the average Californian…
Canaduh has imported California water for years, everything from tomatoes to Chardonnay
Ask if anyone would send irrigation water that way and there is indignation