For decades, California has issued rights to more water than actually exists. How much more? No one knows. But after three years of drought, farmers are having to fight each other for water.
Feinstein’s Water Bomb: California senator takes aim at Delta fish protections
After denouncing a Republican rider to waive Endangered Species Act protection for salmon and other fish in California’s Bay Delta, Sen. Dianne Feinstein wants to introduce an amendment that would essentially do the same thing. Read more here.
“Another propaganda victory by radical environmentalists”
A shout-out from Congressman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., one of the stars of my recent piece about California’s water meltdown.
The Year of Magical Thinking: California’s Water Disaster, Crisis Politics and the Media
In the words of 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl: “Arnold Schwarzenegger, who first became famous for pumping iron, wants to be remembered for pumping water back into California.”
Sacramento Bee: “Tapping Into Anger”
Powerful Central Valley water district challenges friends and foes in campaign to turn on the Delta spigot
Breakdown
Fox News commentator Sean Hannity would like you to believe that the threatened Delta smelt is drying up farmers. But the “Cadillac of American irrigation districts” has more than a tiny fish to blame for its troubles.