On Sep 30, 2:18*pm, Gene wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:36:13 -0700 (PDT), FishWisher

wrote:
Living smack-dab in the embattled Central Valley of California, where
our legislatures cause more than enough trouble as they endlessly
legislate Utopia, we now have the feds strangling our valley water
supply.

The Feds CREATED your water supply in 1933 out of a semi-arid desert.
Be happy with what the environment will support and don't feel
entitled to the impossible. You make this sound trivial, but it is
not. Recreational and commercial fishing in your state is based around
salmon. The delta smelt is the salmon's main source of food. Kill that
and you kill the state's fishing and fish-tourism revenues.

The problem isn't regulations, it is the lack thereof. You have too
many people vying for a very limited amount of resources. GROWTH is
what needs to be regulated.

We have the same thing going on in the East... in Georgia. Upstream
they build and build and build and build, then want to keep all of the
water flowing out of Georgia into Alabama and Florida for themselves,
instead of addressing their own lack of control on growth.
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Not just in GA... North Carolina is doing the same thing to SC on the
Catawba River. They want to pull water out of the river that should
be flowing on down into SC. Charlotte wants to sphon off the water to
support it's own growth.