The State Water Resources Control Board made its priorities clear in announcing its recommendation in early July. The board cherry-picked old statistics to insist the Tuolumne, Merced and Stanislaus fisheries are on the brink of collapse. It pointed out that creeping salinity from San Francisco Bay imperils the Delta. The board insists only more of the water from our rivers can solve both problems.

But more needs to be done if we are to adequately prepare for the future, which will require elected officials to get off their hands and help find a path forward. -- Johnny Amaral, Fresno Bee, July 11, 2018

 
Reading this article about the rapidly sinking Friant-Kern Canal, built in the late 1940's to replenish the water supply to areas in the eastern San Joaquin Valley where farmers had overdrafted the groundwater, should, among other lessons, explain the consistent lunacy of the two congressmen whose districts straddle the canal, Republican representatives Devin Nunes and Kevin McCarthy.  The canal is essential to the largely agricultural economy of the region and to the water supply of a string of farm towns that give Tulare County a charm invisible from SR 99,

 History of Richard III
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Act I, Scene 4
London. The Tower.