[quote=EconProf]If I remember correctly from the news reports, a lot of the water cutbacks for CA farmers are due to the need to protect a certain fish–a type of smelt, I believe.
Because it is allegedly an endangered species, the water cannot be diverted towards agriculture as this will hurt the remaining smelt. Farmers need to get smart and be declared an endangered species.[/quote]
There are other ways to deal with the problem … a few tons of DDT dumped into Suisun Bay in early summer should do the trick. Or maybe some smuggled piranhas.
Seriously though, we need to build a desalinization plant…
