That is because they intend to use all the water to save the delta smelt rather than feed the farms.
We got 1/4 of our annual rainfall yesterday.
Our government is already starving the world by converting lots of corn crops to crops for fuel, now this?
Our government elites tend to show on their best days maybe the brains of a Spice Girl.
“...they intend to use all the water to save the delta smelt rather than feed the farms”
‘Zackly. The farmers in the Central Valley are solidly Conservative, and the Sacramento Democrats want to drive them out of business and weaken the politics of the one area in the State that they don’t control. 75% of this drought (for farmers, anyway) is man-made.