Feds Withhold Water To Farmers in California For First Time In 54 Years Because a Fish is More Important Than People

Make no mistake there are two droughts occurring in California.  One is natural as a result of lack of rain.  But, the more serious one is totally man-made thanks to environmental lunatics who hate people but love a little fish.  That’s the insanity progressives bring to the state of California. 

Yahoo News reports without a lot more rain and snow, many California farmers caught in the state's drought can expect to receive no irrigation water this year from a vast system of rivers, canals and reservoirs interlacing the state, federal officials announced Friday.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released its first outlook of the year, saying that the agency will continue to monitor rain and snow fall, but the grim levels so far prove that the state is in the throes of one of its driest periods in recorded history.

Farmers who rely on the federally run Central Valley Project received only 20 percent of their normal water allotment last year and were expecting this year's bad news. Some communities and endangered wildlife that rely on the federal water source will also suffer deep cuts.

The state's snowpack is at 29 percent of average for this time of year, which means that for farmers it's going to be a hard year.

"My gross sales are probably going to be cut in half," said Bill Diedrich, who farms 1,500 acres of almonds, tomatoes and other crops in the parched Central Valley community of Firebaugh. "Some farmers out here are going to lose everything they've got."

Gov. Jerry Brown last month declared California's drought emergency, and both state and federal officials have pledged millions of dollars to help with water conservation and food banks for those put out of work by the drought.

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All this misery, many of whom are Latinos who Democrats claim they champion, over a lousy finger-sized delta smelt fish?