The Merced Irrigation District, a regional water authority in the San Joaquin Valley, is suing the State of California over a plan to divert water from the Merced River watershed to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta for fish and downstate use.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!As Breitbart News reported in 2018, the state’s Bay-Delta Plan aims to increase the amount of fresh water in the delta, also known simply as the “California Delta,” which has suffered from increasing salinity in recent years.
The Merced Irrigation District (MID) alleges that the plan is simply a “water grab” that will take water from local users and send it to the delta, to satisfy environmental interest groups — many of which have no connection to the state — and Southern California users.
The MID has conducted its own scientific studies to suggest that declining salmon populations in other parts of the state are not due to water diversion, but rather to the arrival of alien predators and other development activities, such as mining. The MID has also negotiated with the state in the past to provide its own salmon habitat restoration — while keeping the water.
But the state has decided to go ahead with its plan, though it has not yet said how much water it plans to divert from the Merced River, which is a tributary of the San Joaquin River that flows from the Sierra Nevada, including Yosemite National Park, through the rich Central Valley farmland before joining the main watercourse northward to the Delta.
MID officials have set up a “Save Merced’s Water” website to gather signatures from residents to stop the diversions from moving forward.
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“Our perspective is we didn’t create [California’s] water quality problems,” [MID spokesperson Mike] Jensen said. “It shouldn’t be our responsibility to bear the brunt of fixing them.”
MID good for you and best of luck fighting this ugly plan of ‘water grabbers’ for their benefit and not considering the ultimate damage to the central valley. If the STATE built additional dams back in the 70’s when droughts started, we’d not be in this mess.
Droughts didn’t start in the 70’s numb nuts. They’ve always existed. This is
purely a power grab to satisfy the commie “environmentalists” and developments by the rich because of their poor planning and operation of the state government.
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