Feinstein recently drafted legislation trying to get farmers 40% of their federal water allotments rather than the 10% they got last year. Still, Feinstein\u2019s legislation has a lot of people angry- from fishing groups to defenders of the Endangered Species Act. She wants to divert water out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and send it to the Central Valley.<\/p>\n
“She’s basically saying, ‘I’m going to go ahead and give these big water guys … the water and screw the coast,'” — Zeke Grader, executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That\u2019s right- everybody wants a piece of the Sacramento-San Joaquin. Could it be that California is just out of water? Or is now the moment when America’s largest farming state and symbol of the West Coast finally need to deal with the fact that like the Mavericks waves, water itself determines when and where things can happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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