In an average year, California gets enough snow and rain to put 200 million acres under a foot of water, but environmental opposition to dams over the last several decades has allowed the majority of the freshwater to flow into the ocean, even as the state’s population exploded to nearly 40 million people. The current drought has left farms parched and residents under strict water consumption orders, but some say it didn't have to be that way.
But the vast majority of the state’s 1,400 dams and reservoirs, in the two massive systems and smaller ones that supply southern California, were built well before the 1980s. Environmentalists have since stopped the construction of water storage and delivery systems through legal and political actions. They have also fought to ensure that captured water is released into streams and the ocean -- rather than the water delivery system -- in order to boost fish populations and dilute the salinity of the delta
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/16...-by-misguided/
this makes me mad and the thing is I have been griping about it for years. But Californians keep voting these bozos into office who pander to the small Environmentalists and the Public Unions (Democrats) and instead of building dams, decided to build a High Speed Rail that most Californians wont even take
Jerry Brown is an idiot
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