Originally Posted by Bigfoot
Bet they're still stealing water from the Central Valley farmers and instead letting it run straight into the ocean to save the Delta Smelt.

Orchards and farms are broke so they can't pay taxes.
Farmworkers are on unemployment.
Food prices are up.
Water supplies are down.
But we got this cool little baitfish.

Sounds like natural selection.


Ｉ hate to burst your Stewart Resnick sponsored bubble, but the Delta Smelt are so close to extinction, that pumping plants are not currently effected. From: http://californiawaterblog.com/2015/03/18/prepare-for-extinction-of-delta-smelt/

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Intensive Kodiak trawl surveys near the state and federal water projects (Jersey Point) in 2014 caught so few fish that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service placed no restrictions on Delta pumping that year.



Expect no pumping restrictions this year either, as their numbers are so low, that "the man" in CA fisheries science is calling them functionally extinct.


If you're skeptical of the source I linked, google up some others. They'll all corroborate.