[Dinsdale]

It's the salt water intrusion into the delta that causes the most problems.

The southern Californians want to dig a canal around the delta so they can suck unlimited water from further up steam.

Northern Californians having watched what happened to the Owens valley say 'Not a chance in hell, pave over your lawns!'

At the end of the day you can caste this as enviro kook vs. S. Cal but it's not.

It's fisherman vs. farmer, with all of Northern Cal basically saying, 'No more summer water available hear, move along.'

[GOP_1900AD]

Salt water intrusion is due to subidence of the land in the Delta area due to ground water pumping and peat compaction combined with dredging. Also, damming the southern Sierra rivers did not help (they were dammed mostly for things like the Friant Kern district, etc).

[SierraWasp]

Me thinks yer brain's been swallowed whole by the idiot Marc Reisner's stupid book, Cadillac Desert!!!

Read something else other than the rhetorical puke put out by the Wallace Stegner/Limosine Liberal GovernMental/EnvironMental Born Again Pagan priesthood!!!

I spose you believe that nuclear power is too risky and expensive for CA and that oil is just as toxic to the universe as plutonium. Stop buying these worn out old platitudes and attitudes and develope your own critical thinking!

Being against the peripheral canal and the Bureau of Reclamation (the "Hydraulic Brotherhood), puts you right in the camp of Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, James Earl Carter and the two stooges I mentioned above!!! C'mon!!! Snap out of it!!!

[rogator]

"It's the salt water intrusion into the delta that causes the most problems.
The southern Californians want to dig a canal around the delta so they can suck unlimited water from further up steam.
Northern Californians having watched what happened to the Owens valley say 'Not a chance in hell, pave over your lawns!'
At the end of the day you can caste this as enviro kook vs. S. Cal but it's not.
It's fisherman vs. farmer, with all of Northern Cal basically saying, 'No more summer water available hear, move along.'"

You are right on the money.
Why should the folks in the north tolerate the LA area wackos destroying their environment to create an artificial oasis in what was and what will again be a desert?
Its time for the south to look at and practice what has been done to save water in places like Tucson.
The San Joachin farmers have already made their river run backwards. Why should they be allowed to do the same to the rivers of the north?