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Bone-dry California dumps water to ‘make fish happy’
Congressman scorches left's 'lunacy' during worst drought in state history
By Greg Corombos On 04/11/2015 In Politics,U.S.
Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., is working feverishly to reverse federal and state policies that give fish and rivers priority over people in the distribution of water during the worst drought in California history.
The state is now in the fourth year of the drought, and water reserves are running frighteningly low. McClintock said it’s a result of stunningly stupid policies dating back to the last time Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown was in office.
“We haven’t built a major dam in this state since 1979,” McClintock said. “Meanwhile, the population has nearly doubled. We aren’t going to solve our water problems until we begin building more dams. We can’t build more dams as long as the radical environmental laws make their construction impossible.”
Brown chalks up the shortage to climate change, saying higher temperatures mean less snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains and less water come spring.
“If you happen to worship at the church of global warming, you should be pressing very hard to build more dams,” he said. “It means, with a warmer climate, we will not be able to store as much water in the mountains as snow. Therefore, we need to store that water behind dams. Yet, Gov. Brown has been one of the leading opponents to new dam construction.”
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