Lake Shasta is the states largest resevour. It was built in the 30s and 40s to keep salt water intrusion out of the Sacramento River during times of low flows. Ag has signed on to pay for the non funded part of the lake, while the funded part is payed for with tax dollars. The funded part is for the public and in the last ten years the environmentalist have carved out a large chunk of that water for delta and fish issues. In a short period the environmentalist have drastically reduced the size of the water pie.
To add insult to injury these environmentalist are the same groups that have held the state hostage as far as any new water storage projects are concerned. They seem to find plenty of uses for CA water, and then they tell everyone else to conserve.
The worst offender in this whole movement just might be the NRSDC National Resourse Defence Council. This group is led by a bunch of environmental lawyers and they seem to be compleatly economically driven.
These ass holes litigate litigate litigate and offer no real solution to the problem. In short they are just agitators and use the environment as their cover.
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