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Californians lose 800,000 acre-feet of water to 305 minnows.

305 Minnows?

And what was one of Calif's two senators' response when representatives of the California's Central Valleys visited her DC office to appeal to common sense?

Dianne Feinstein's curt, arrogant and smarmy response to the appeal to protect human beings over minnows?

IT'S THE LAW!!! DEAL WITH IT!!!!

In the mid 60s, California grew and provided 90% of all the fruits and vegetables consumed in the United States. And much was exported.

Today, it is down to 60%.
And the most valuable farmland in the United States is slowly, but relentlessly, reverting to desert.

But minnows, and white water rafters are happy.
Whooopieeeeee!

[publius911]

The ridiculous environmental rules protecting the Delta minnow say the pumps can only gobble up 305 of the minnows in a water year, which ends Sept. 30. The count is already 232 — more than 75 percent of the limit. So to make sure pumps supply water to 25 million people and millions of acres of farmland consumes no more than four minnow buckets full of smelt — 800,000 acre-feet of water is gone."