Thanks to the generosity of Obama and his Federal policies, the farmers of the Central Valley will get ZERO water from the Federal water project. He will be using the water as a means to get the farmers to support him, in exchange for a little bit of water—or go out of business and need government welfare—again, making them dependent on government.
““The rain events in December were encouraging, but the persistent dry weather the first two months of this year underscores our need to plan for another critical year of drought. We have been working closely for months with our state and federal agency partners to try to minimize impacts and will continue to do so,” says Bureau of Reclamation Mid-Pacific Regional Director David Murillo.
Last year also saw the CVP allocation set at zero.
Thanks to government water policies from Sacramento and Washington, the Central Valley dust bowl will replace the 1930’s dust bowl. Government knows how to kill businesses, just ask the coal industry.
Drought drains hopes of Central Valley Project buyers
Central Valley Business Times, 2/27/15
• Bureau of Reclamation says it will supply zero percent of expected deliveries to farmers
• “The rain events in December were encouraging”
With California in a fourth straight year of a drought, with little snow in the Sierra Nevada and reservoirs generally at less than average capacities, the federal Central Valley Project says Friday that its initial allocation of water in 2015 will be zero percent of the amount under contract for farmers.
“The rain events in December were encouraging, but the persistent dry weather the first two months of this year underscores our need to plan for another critical year of drought. We have been working closely for months with our state and federal agency partners to try to minimize impacts and will continue to do so,” says Bureau of Reclamation Mid-Pacific Regional Director David Murillo.
Last year also saw the CVP allocation set at zero.
While there has been more rain this winter than last, the storms have been warmer, meaning they’ve left less snow in the mountains. It is the snowmelt runoff that feeds the reservoirs of both the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project.
The farm lobby was swift to react.
“The CVP announcement is both saddening and maddening,” says Paul Wenger, president of the California Farm Bureau Federation.
“It’s saddening because the continued cutoff of water will prolong the impact of water shortages on farmers, their employees and rural communities. It’s maddening because California still struggles to manage water wisely and flexibly, especially in dry years,” he says.
“A second year of zero percent water allocation shines a bright spotlight on the need for the above ground water storage that voters approved when they said ‘yes’ to the water bond last year,” says Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno.
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