You pension sobbers……water goes to the moon…then follow the money!

FOR MONTHS & YEARS…CALIFORNIA BUREAUCRATS HAVE BEEN RELEASING & FLUSHING & WASTING BILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER OUT TO THE OCEAN for either the delta smelt (fish food for salmon) or the coho salmon (a far north Pacific Northwest fish) – and supposedly we fear SEA RISING because of GLOBAL WARMING.

FOR YEARS, CALIFORNIA BUREAUCRATS HAVE PUT A MORATORIUM ON THE MAJORITY OF CALIFORNIA’S TIMBER INDUSTRY….TREES SUCK UP WATER BUT WE CAN’T CUT THEM DOWN TO MANAGE THE TOO DENSE, CATASTROPHIC-FIRE-IN-THE-MAKING FORESTS. So our future is bigger forests sucking up millions of gallons of water every day, importing expensive timber from Canada, the demise of the Spotted Owl with its 6-foot wingspan cannot fly into the forests to retrieve rodents it once dined on, and animals not wanting to live in forests because there is no feed…fruit and grass need sun to grow. Deer forage on grass…not needles.

FOR YEARS, CALIFORNIA BUREAUCRATS HAVE PUT A MORATORIUM ON DREDGE MINING WHICH HELPS CREATE BETTER SPAWNING HABITAT FOR THE PRECIOUS PET PROJECT COHO SALMON.

FOR YEARS, CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN ON AN AGENDA TO REMOVE HYDRO PRODUCING DAMS & RESERVOIRS – these hydro producing dams and lakes are NECESSARY, PROVIDE COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF WATER 365/DAYS PER YEAR/ 24 HOURS/PER DAY (even during droughts), are CLEAN GREEN ENERGY DAMS AND WATER STORAGE LAKES (like the KLAMATH RIVER HYDRO DAMS AND WATER STORAGE LAKES) that provide drought, flood, and fire control, irrigation for farmers, eco-systems for habitat, recreation, clean green renewable energy, and scenic beauty to a state that naturally goes dry and water submerges in the late seasons into the underlying aquifers.

ALL of the above is backwards crazy making foolish and irresponsible.

Note, California is naturally and historically a drought-ridden, Mediterranean, arid, dry state whereby diverting water and creating storage for irrigation has given us the title of BREAD BASKET OF THE NATION. Because of DIVERTING water and creating a GARDEN OASIS OF LIFE that is California we have MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRIES that call California home: Hi-Tech, Bio-Tech, Hollywood, Wineries, Travel, Recreation, and Ag.

Prop 1, which both Rs and Ds voted for, claimed majority of monies and water to nature…so it’s no wonder YOU NOW MUST CHANGE YOUR WATER HABITS. Prior to Prop 1 passage, Jerry Brown stole our groundwater via EO.

And just hang on…we are in for a long LOG RIDE where there will be no water for us to get wet. Just wait until you are forced to replace your toilet with low flow that backs up. Just wait until the doctor prescribed 8, 8oz glasses of water a day is reduced to 6 then 4. Just wait until your $14 glass of wine is now $20 then $22, etc. Just wait until we are forced to REDUCE every aspect of our lives (from driving (cars require water to be built and water to run) to recreation (skiing on man-made snow, boating on lakes (pollution in the scarce water)) are going to be so expensive we eventually will stop doing more of the things we love and gravitate towards what we are given…like government-given recreation.

FOLKS…WE ARE IN HOT WATER. The WATER WARS are just beginning. We did not control our politicians (and their self-appointed agencies) as they deserve and deserved to be controlled, monitored, and FIRED!! We now will suffer the consequences for years and years to come until enough of the citizenry gets motivated to turn back time. Is this possible?

There are no knights on white horses coming to save us…it is up to YOU AND ME to do something about a government that has literally GONE WILD!!

Wow! Strong post. Dead-on, of course. No one wants to say what you did. Years ago I developed a water-saving device. I was not allowed to offer it for sale due to bureaucratic restrictions. That, and good concepts developed by other people just died. Big government is NOT the answer. Tim Donnelly was right, of course, but we don’t have him as governor. Maybe the leftists salivating over all the Democratic give-aways will now see that self-determination is what counts, not government interference — but I doubt it.