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Subscribe to RSSWhat the drought in California means for agriculture and one endangered fish, with CNBC's Jane Wells.
A drought in California’s San Joaquin Valley has farmers boiling mad over how much water they should be allowed to draw from the Sacramento Delta.
A court-ordered protection of the Delta smelt, an endangered sliver of a fish, has reduced the amount of water farmers may use to 30 percent of their contracted amount. This means an estimated half million acres could be unplanted next season – the equivalent size of Rhode Island.
Watch the report by CNBC’s Jane Wells (above).
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Bait ?..... That is what really all that is left, we are eating ourselves out of house and home. Really good science film dealing with this subject is The end of the lineThe End of the Line Trailer, if you have netflix give it a watch.
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Our tax dollars at work.
We have to dumbest government money can buy
silly comments like these show people don't understand the food chain at all. when the bottom of the food chain is gone so too will go the top. drawing so much water from rivers that fish can not survive seems pretty stupid to me. thank goodness we have rules in place to prevent this. the farmers can fallow their fields, plant barley and have better crops next year. when you cause the extinction of fish and animals there is no next year. please crack a science book open and do a little learning.
Does anyone (other that irrert) understand that the Delta Smelt is the canary in the mine?
Here we go again. This is not about the Delta Smelt, it's about water, people and Salmon. Salmon is on the edge of extinction because of excessive water diversions that impact thousands of people in California and Oregon. Here's a video that will help anyone who really cares, to understand:
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Farm in the desert...go figure....not like these are small family farms...total agri-buisiness...I'm not crying for them especially since the prices will just be raised to make up for it.
Honest to god, CNBC, this is the best you can do on this subject? The summary above falls into every trap that every lazy journalist has fallen into ever since the Delta smelt became an issue. It's insulting that you'd pass this off as meaningful reporting.