Because after all, it's vitally important that Delta Smelt be able to surf their way to the Pacific Ocean. Of what importance are mere human beings and growing food compared to that?:
Drought-stricken California on Friday ordered the largest cuts on record to farmers holding some of the State's strongest water rights.
State water officials told more than a hundred senior rights holders in California's Sacramento, San Joaquin and delta watersheds to stop pumping from those waterways.
The move by the State Water Resources Control Board marked the first time that the State has forced large numbers of holders of senior-water rights to curtail use. Those rights holders include water districts that serve thousands of farmers and others.
The move shows California is sparing fewer and fewer users in the push to cut back on water using during the State's four-year drought.
Anthropogenic drought. Get it right, AP.
"We are now at the point where demand in our system is outstripping supply for even the most senior water rights holders," Caren Trgovcich, chief deputy director of the water board.
Actually, Miss Trgovcich, you've kind of got that backwards. It isn't that demand for water is outstripping supply; it's that decades of your ilk's insane environmental policies have cratered the supply. An anthropogenic drought is simply the environmental version of a socialist scarcity economy, which makes the old joke about the communists taking over the Sahara Desert and soon creating a shortage of sand even more hilariously insightful.
You see, Caren, most of California is a natural desert already. One visit to anyplace in the interior of the State will reveal that. When your State was sparsely populated, it didn't matter all that much. But once the mass migration into the Acapulco Golden State commenced early in the last century, increasing the water supply became a lot more important. Acqueducts and canals and reservoirs and irrigation became a necessity and a boon, transforming the arid central portions of California into "America's salad bowl," one of the most productive agricultural areas in the country.
What your greenstremist ilk has done is restrict and choke off those needed water imports even as, at least until recent years, your State's population continued to grow. There are almost forty million people living in California - more than the entire population of Canada - in a territory that cannot remotely support it absent abundant piped-in water supplies. Water supplies that were already drying up because of decades of environmentalist obstruction of (heh) infrastructure projects that would have been of crucial assistance for just such natural drought cycles as has long been known California experiences.
It's, to be metaphorically ironic, the "perfect storm". And rather than regaining your collective sanity, consigning the delta smelt to grocers' freezers everywhere, scrapping your State's stupid-ass high speed rail boondoggle that nobody will ride at exorbitant prices, and embarking on a crash water infrastructure upgrade to make up for lost time, your State Water Resources Control Board (honest bit of nomenclature, that) that has already turned the central valley back into a dust bowl, is going to cut off the irrigation of what few farmers still survive.
If I didn't have a close friend down there, I'd say that the events of San Andreas couldn't come fast enough....
....but then that's probably next on the greenstremists' agenda, if they can figure out how to target what "red" enclaves remain.
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