Don’t bite the hand that feeds you, it is said. It appears as though the state government is doing just that. The world’s economy is the most important problem and we can’t fix it as a whole, but we can help it locally. The state plan to cut water deliveries 15 percent, (not down 15 percent but down to 15 percent) of the amount requested annually.

This just shows me that the state is either uninformed or unconcerned about the economy and agribusiness, and how they interrelate to each other. They are the backbone of the state’s economy. Because of the lack of sufficient water for agribusiness the most variety and richest farmland in the state will have to go fallow and turn California into another 1930s Oklahoma dust bowl. Is that good for the economy or what?

This stems mostly from the environmentalists who want to save the Delta smelt. The way I see it if they don’t have solutions to go with their complaints they should shut up. You can’t hug a one-inch fish. Go hug a Polar Bear instead. Stopping the pumping is not a solution. As I remember my history, didn’t the Indians show the Pilgrims how to plant corn using a fish as a fertilizer in the holes where the corn was planted?

So, the pumps grind up a few little fish. Fish emulsion is a good fertilizer because it is high in nitrogen. I think that a more acceptable solution would be to invent a sonic device that would transmit a low frequency sound in the water that would ward the smelt away form the pump intakes. Not powerful enough to hurt them, but more of an irritation that would send them seeing refuge elsewhere.

The company that comes up with this type of device would help to bring up California’s economy. What a concept, farmers that would be allowed to farm. These crops not only feed the country but they also help clean the air as they absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. Helps us go green. Fallow farmland does not produce food or taxable income for the economy. All that it creates is higher welfare rolls and unemployment. While the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers flow merrily into the San Francisco Bay. Useless to everyone.

The Delta smelt prefer the waters where the tidal salt waters and fresh waters mix. This mix does not occur in the south delta where most of the pumps are located. This court-ordered pumping restriction (what do they know?) is based on poor advice and ignorance. The court seems to forget who’s paying their bills.

Larry Turner,
Madera

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