Wayne:
This state is so insane that I predict that if the choice comes down to fish or granny, the powers that be will make the obvious choice from their perspective.
One should waste no time preparing for grandma’s funeral.

A “green” salad for sure. But could I get a glass of water?

Thanks for the comment

It may come down to an ethical dilemma this summer as communicated in a letter from the Public Utilities Commission, Grid Operator and the Energy Commission. California may have a choice of curtailing water supplies for fish and for carryover water for 2015 or for spilling enough water so that natural gas power plants have enough water to run their steam generators so that your grandmother on a respirator or on a dialysis machine has enough power to survive. The three energy regulating agencies in California are warning there would not be enough water for northern California steam power plants if water is curtailed for fish or for conserving for carry over into 2015.

So it may literally come down to a choice between a fish and our grandmothers this year. Hopefully, ideologically driven officials won’t make that decision.

There were funds dedicated in the failed water bond for water storage but that storage was restricted only to “projects the improved the Delta ecosystem” and “contributed to the restoration of aquatic ecosystems and native fish and wildlife.” In other words, only “green dams” could have been built.

This is the problem of one party government in California. Everybody outside of that Party is not welcome to the spending “party” and artificial jobs programs proliferate while legitimate water infrastructure projects are never funded. California spent nearly $20 billion on 5 water bonds since 2000 that squandered all that funding in the same way without a drop of water storage created.

“$460 million for the Wildlife Conservation Board, $100 million for the Wildlife
Conservation Board for wildlife refuges and habitat areas, $100 million for restoration of the Salton Sea, $50 million for the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact, $100 million for the San Joaquin River Settlement Act, $1.175 billion for land conservancies to buy open space in various areas, $50 million for the Ocean Protection Council, $15 million for park land acquisition in Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles, $65 million for buying land in the Santa Monica Mountains, $165 million for the State Coastal Conservancy, $15 million for coastal wetlands restoration, and $200 million for public agencies and nonprofit agencies. And $150 million vaguely for projects proximate to “major metropolitan cities for a river that has an adopted revitalization plan” (the Los Angeles River?).”