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Convene ‘God Squad’ to address water emergency, says commentary

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on July 10, 2009 at 7:02 am

From the Santa Ynez Valley Journal, this commentary by Brandon Middleton & Damien Schiff of the Pacific Legal Foundation:

Thousands of Californians are suffering from a severe water shortage, and recently the Obama Administration added insult to injury.

In June, the National Marine Fisheries Service issued an Endangered Species Act “biological opinion” on the effects that state and federal water projects have on Chinook salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon and killer whales. The Service’s action puts these species well above humans on the totem pole and threatens to impose new and drastic cutbacks in water deliveries to municipalities and farmers in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California.

The administration’s decision could not come at a worse time.

A number of San Joaquin Valley communities are already experiencing staggering unemployment rates, as high as 40 percent in some cases. Some farms have been forced to idle farmland as a result of receiving only 10 percent of their historic contracted water supplies.

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July 10, 2009 · Filed Under Water & Wildlife

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