Public Responses

Sep 03, 2010
Green Backlash
What is clear in California is that partisan ideologies and cultish environmentalism have replaced prudent science

Aug 29, 2010
Taking Copper Out Not The Answer
You gullible people believe everything you read. The Ozone layer. Y2K. SARS. Swine Flu

Aug 29, 2010
Copper In Brake Pads
we should make brake pads entirely out of wood....they would be organically grown

Aug 28, 2010
Restoration Lawsuit
But when you have US Senators, a State Legislature who believe fish are more important then man.. Good Luck.

Aug 27, 2010
Don't Let Governor Appoint
every time we elect a new dunce the policy will change

Aug 27, 2010
Shake Up DWR
Current DWR is turning into a good-ol-boys-n-girls club of mediocre and incompetent managers who just promote their personal friends

Aug 26, 2010
Sacramento Needs To Clean Up Its Act
Sacramentans killing off fish and other wildlife in the Delta, shame!

Aug 26, 2010
Clean Up The Sewage
Is the high cost of treating our waste water even an issue? Smaller municipalities do it.

Aug 26, 2010
Sacramento Sewage
Excess nutrients are blamed for dead zones in the ocean and the Gulf so how can nutrients be good for the Delta?

Aug 24, 2010
Pumping Not The Only Problem
Scientists have determined that ammonium has a devastating effect on the food supply needed by Delta fisheries

Aug 24, 2010
Internationalization Of Species Protection
a Montana judge a few weeks shut down wolf hunting in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming for the ostensible reason that the separate populations could not be considered as distinct

Aug 24, 2010
Steelhead Fight Still Coming
but it will wait until after the election because it is so unpopular

Aug 21, 2010
Delta Flow Criteria 'No Binding Authority'
It ignores the impacts to water users throughout our state

Aug 20, 2010
Water supply Is Floating Down The River
Go read the article about the valleys unemployment rate rising before you print an article like this

Aug 20, 2010
Farming Is Dying But River Is Flowing
Millions have been wasted, but the water is going to the ocean

Aug 19, 2010
Not A Record Drought
Citing state managed reservoirs for their manipulated lack of storage is weak at best

Aug 18, 2010
Delta Water Exports
By its own admission, the board said that its report is limited and non-binding.

Aug 18, 2010
Green Energy Racket
So California is being forced to buy a product that would not resolve or even help resolve the problem if it actually existed

Aug 18, 2010
Don't Remove Dams
County tax base and services will be reduced; Loss of agriculture and ranching; Loss of jobs

Aug 18, 2010
Dam Removal
oh well let the power company and all the criminal enviroinmental units run your county they are already doing it.

Aug 16, 2010
Enforcement Is A Shakedown
She replied: “It is what it is. We just follow the law.”

Aug 13, 2010
SWP Birthday
The State of California’s mighty State Water Project (SWP) is being neglected and is declining

Aug 13, 2010
Who Should Own Water?
There are political voices that genuinely believe that core, societal assets are better in private hands.

Aug 11, 2010
The State Is Ungovernable
Picking a different bus driver won't help either--the steering doesn't work.

Aug 11, 2010
Bad Idea
if they could only find a man named Les Cash

Aug 11, 2010
Supports Delay
to fully inform California voters on the benefits of the bond, including:

Aug 09, 2010
How Many Water Bonds?
I stopped counting and I stopped voting yes on any of them because they are too riddled with pork

Aug 09, 2010
Doesn't Like Delay
it will still stink

Aug 09, 2010
Let The Voters Decide Now
if it fails then the New Governor and Legislature can rewrite it knowing the voters opinions.

Aug 06, 2010
Actors And The Bond
Just because a bunch of idiotic people watched some idiotic actors on a few idiotic sitcoms

Aug 06, 2010
Water Infrastructure Needs Fixing
The supply, delivery and environmental issues associated with our state’s water issues will continue

Aug 04, 2010
Less Water Means More Unemployment
I say let's do a study on the economic impact of the proposed reduce water flow and calculate how many millions of people this will affect

Aug 04, 2010
Study This!
Let's eat, for tomorrow there won't be any California grown food on the table if water is cut

Aug 04, 2010
Wasted Water
"If God had meant all that water to be wasted, He would have just let it flow into the ocean."

Aug 02, 2010
Who's Pulling Gov's Strings?
This isn't a partisan appointment it is an appointment to move a specific agenda for the Delta.

Aug 02, 2010
Marcus Appointment
And if that is not a sufficient conflict, she is currently the head of the local office of NRDC, an environmental organization currently involved in litigation

Aug 01, 2010
Bullet Train Boondoggle
Even if this rail is successful it does not have the support structure

Jul 31, 2010
Dams Help Delta Flow
The water diversions are a small fraction of the water that we store behind dams in the winter and spring and then release in the summer and fall.

Jul 31, 2010
Governor Blockhead
Oh to be in Washington DC rubbing shoulders with other celebrities at environmental gala events.

Jul 30, 2010
Farming Means Jobs
We have long called for increased storage as part of the solution

Jul 28, 2010
Chemistry Of Delta Has Changed
Today it is one that favors microorganisms that do a poor job of supporting species such as the Delta smelt

Jul 28, 2010
Dems Will Lose Hispanic Vote
The Dems can ill afford to lose more of the Hispanic vote, but they will over this.

Jul 28, 2010
Don't Believe Zeke
Pretty easy to throw around the "Big Ag" statements and try and demonize family farmers

Jul 26, 2010
Ag Water Use Is Efficient
Farmers on the State Water Project paid full cost over the past few years for less than half of their supply

Jul 26, 2010
Mercury News Editorial Is Wrong
The Legislature specifically prevented the study from considering other factors involved in Delta water, including water to farms

Jul 25, 2010
Sewage Is Delta Problem
The Delta is in decline because of billions of gallons of sewage pollution dumped into the delta every single day

Jul 25, 2010
San Francisco Must Do More To Help Delta
Since San Francisco gets most of its water from diversions that would have gone to the Delta

Jul 23, 2010
Board's Hands Were Tied
The Board, in fact, was prohibited by the Legislature from looking at anything BUT flow,

Jul 22, 2010
Report Is Flawed
Then you look at the introduced species (Striped Bass, Large & Smallmouth bass, crappie, 3 types of perch, all 5 varities of catfish, the asiatic clam,

Jul 22, 2010
Charge Ag More For Water
The current prices are nothing more than taxpayer-subsidized breaks for end users.

Jul 22, 2010
Report Provides Little In Way Of A Solution
Those issues, such as "habitat, water quality and invasive species" should be addressed

Jul 22, 2010
Enviros Use The Courts For Their Aims
don't be fooled by labels like Parasites it is a sham only to be used in the courts

Jul 20, 2010
Construction Unions And The Water Bond
after two long days and nights of grueling negotiations, State Building Trades legislative advocates finally persuaded the last few legislators to cast the necessary votes to place a historic water bond before the voters

Jul 20, 2010
The Man-Made Drought
Even if no water was pumped out of the delta the smelt would be dying. There are hundreds of millions of gallons of partially treated sewage

Jul 20, 2010
Smelt And The Food Chain
Richard Kirk doesn't seem to understand how the food chain works

Jul 16, 2010
Bond Was Effort To Hoodwink The Public
To benefit their corporate agribiz buddies

Jul 14, 2010
Studies Suffer From Lack Of Coordination
The public comments by James Cloern of USGS directed at Dr. Patricia Glibert crossed the line of professionalism

Jul 12, 2010
Taxpayer Money Did Not Construct Kern Water Bank
Water users, primarily contractors to the State Water Project, purchased the land and paid for the infrastructure

Jul 12, 2010
Kern Deal Is Subject To Legal Challenge
if I promised you a week’s stay at my golf and spa resort on the far side of the moon in return for you immediately giving me your brand new Escalade, what kind of deal is that?

Jul 12, 2010
Kern Deal Is a Deal
Deal with it and move on

Jul 10, 2010
Beneficiaries Pay Position
It is an oversimplification to think that beneficiaries are possible to (politically and meaningfully) isolate.

Jul 09, 2010
Government Double-Speak
I am undecided on the goals of the EPA in this case.

Jul 08, 2010
What Is 'Navigable'?
Even shallow streams that are traversable only by canoe have met the test.

Jul 08, 2010
Flood Control Basins Are Not Rivers
Bend-over taxpayers, because here come the "civil fines"

Jul 08, 2010
Water And Pork Do Not Mix
The water bond deserves an early death.

Jul 06, 2010
Need To Fix Water Infrastructure
The results will be continued unemployment for farm workers and unplanted fields in some of the richest farmland in the world.

Jul 06, 2010
Hoover Dam Has Done A Pretty Good Job
MartyK at 10:56 AM July 5, 2010 Is there really an important reason to characterize the dam as some kind of lie perpetrated on the American people? It seems to me like it's done a pretty good job for the time it's been in place. It seems reasonable to

Jul 05, 2010
Bring Water Bill Back Later
The ballot measure we need to pass is one that rescinds the billions of dollars being spent on high-speed rail

Jul 05, 2010
Do We Need Another Agency?
Now there's just one more agency trying to crowd into the Delta ketchen.

Jul 04, 2010
Wowlll1/3 Of Water Is Coming Back
Is Costa Taking Credit For This Loss Of 2/3 Of The Water?

Jul 03, 2010
Let's Get California's Agri-Business Going
I'm so sick of not being able to find a lousy tomato grown in our state

Jul 03, 2010
I Can Wait
to vote no

Jul 03, 2010
Water Bond And Federal Control
Once this pipeline begins to flow it connects the Sacramento

Jul 01, 2010
We Need Water, Not High Speed Rail
Water project is a greater need

Jul 01, 2010
Prop Deserved To Be Pulled
By 2012 Calif will be a few more billions in debt

Jun 30, 2010
Train But No Water?
But, a $50B bond for the new choo-choo

Jun 30, 2010
The State Is Broke
Maybe Vallejo can give us the benefit of its experience

Jun 29, 2010
Bond Would Have Been Defeated
They are looking to save face

Jun 29, 2010
Water Bond Should Have Been In Stimulus
This is exactly the type of project

Jun 29, 2010
How Do They Do It?
There is a huge difference betwen "revenue" and "profit"

Jun 29, 2010
Why Did Fresno Crop Report Not Drop More?
How does anyone explain this quote? "I don't know how ag did it, but they did it"

Jun 27, 2010
Broke And Going Broker
$3.5B spent and nothing came from it.

Jun 27, 2010
Drought Not Over
I'm sorry, but this editorial is so irresponsible.

Jun 26, 2010
Can't Conserve Our Way Out
We're going to have to build more storage

Jun 24, 2010
50% Is New Normal
Regulatory restrictions on water exports have significantly reduced water supplies for millions

Jun 20, 2010
Everyone Needs A Cause
The drought won't be over until WE stop buying into the need to need a cause....

Jun 19, 2010
Change Whatever You Want
I'll still be voting NO.

Jun 19, 2010
Water Bond Provision
What else did the lawmakers "not notice"?

Jun 17, 2010
Mendota Debate
Boxer has helped bring farmers to their knees and her stance on Illegal immigration has

Jun 16, 2010
It's Not 'Just The Pumps'
This study concludes that 90% of the salmon population end up inside the bass.

Jun 15, 2010
5% Increase
woo hoo!!! let's go plant some cotton

Jun 13, 2010
We Have A Brain Shortage
Shasta Dam had to release water ahead

Jun 13, 2010
System Designed For 12,000,000
Nobody believes the drought argument

Jun 13, 2010
Build More Reservoirs
The dams are overflowing

Jun 12, 2010
Clean Water Act
My heartfelt thanks to Bob Vice for exposing yet another plot to destroy democracy in the US

Jun 04, 2010
Water Bank Facts
This misguided lawsuit contains numerous false claims that are misleading to the public

Jun 01, 2010
Cesspool Calls Sewer Black
You disparage Dr. Glibert credibility---where is yours???

Jun 01, 2010
Sanitation District V. Westside
The science is far from complete and comprehensive in its conclusions

May 29, 2010
Environmentalism Is A Religion
We've been lied to repeatedly by many of the environmental organizations and scientists

May 28, 2010
Short-Lived Victory
The appeals court will peel it like a banana

May 28, 2010
Need To Change Law
The enviro-whacko lawyers have the ability to keep this charade going until the patient is dead.

May 27, 2010
Benefit Of The Doubt
Anyone who believes there is no politics going on in this study is just fooling themselves

May 27, 2010
Fish Are Still Protected
There are no population or life cycle studies that show that take is biologically relevant.

May 27, 2010
Doesn't Like Wanger Ruling
A net loss of 1500 salmon per month? If I poached

May 26, 2010
A Step Toward Balance
While the beneficial effects of these opinions on Delta fish have recently become increasingly questionable,

May 24, 2010
Balanced Approach
The words "balanced approach" have not been used in the past by the Left, and their goofy laws have restricted not only farming but trucking,logging

May 24, 2010
Doubts Water Bond Spending
am getting very tired of being told bond money will be used for one thing and as soon as the money comes in it's spent on social services, illegals, and union sweet heart deals.

May 23, 2010
Doubts Study
$50 thousand dollars down the drain.

May 23, 2010
No Evidence Study Is Biased
It is both dangerous and quite irresponsible to assume, without having any evidence or knowledge, that this or any other scientific study is biased

May 23, 2010
Dismissed For Saying The Obvious
think that a scientist who predicts that fish populations cannot thrive in toilet water

May 20, 2010
U. of Maryland Study
Is skepticism only allowable to those who insist on taking water from farmers and urban water users?

May 19, 2010
The Delta Smelt
Someone please tell me, what does the Delta Smelt do exactly?

May 19, 2010
Facts About The Pumps
ESA Regulators allow fishermen to take/kill +15% of the adult salmon in the "Harvest".

May 19, 2010
Wanger Ruling
the government acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” and the pumping restrictions were “a product of guesstimations”.

May 18, 2010
Sacramento and Sewage
If the small cities have to remove the ammonia why doesn't the biggest city?

May 18, 2010
Hetch Hetchy and Fish
I cannot believe how many people have NOT visited the San Joaquin Valley nor are familiar with the issues yet are making decisions impacting the lives

May 18, 2010
Fish and Sewage
Now the Dems will have 20 more years of studies to study the studies that studied studies. Vote 'em out!

May 16, 2010
Groundwater and Farming
Farmers have been warning citizens for years that Owens Valley was first, and we are next.

May 14, 2010
Water V. Rail
We can live without a train but we can't live without water.

May 14, 2010
Water Bond Phone Survey
It seemed to place farmers in a bad light, removal of ground water, esp., for irrigation as a bad thing.

May 12, 2010
Archives
The past water information is very valuable in knowing our present water situation

May 11, 2010
DFG's San Pablo Disaster
Many onlookers watched as the Seabirds gorged themselves.

May 11, 2010
Other State's Smolt Release
The smolt bussing was an absolute failure and so will the dumping into the Sac river

May 11, 2010
Government Programs Need To Be Examined
So all the work for the last 40 years was a waste while government called is science.

May 06, 2010
Critical Of Miller
If you like Al Gore and Code Pink, you'll love Geoge Miller

May 06, 2010
Miller Says He Backs Water Plan
Portraying me as a bogeyman might make good political fodder, but it doesn't make good water policy

May 05, 2010
3 Musketeers
The only person they carry water for is Nancy Pelosi.

May 05, 2010
Nunes And 'Hard Work'
There was nary a mention of Devin Nunes who has been putting tremendous time and energy to get water to the farmers on the west side

May 05, 2010
Costa And Cardoza 'Hard Work'
They both have done nothing to actually solve the water problem except try to take credit for things they had nothing to do with.

May 05, 2010
Paul Rodriguez Appointment
Please adopt a "Get er' Done" attitude and brush up on any dancing skills you may have. You'll surely have to be very good at side-stepping !!

May 05, 2010
Why Not 100%
How bad will it get when the inevitable real drought hits in the near future?

May 04, 2010
EPA And Water
This is insanity. You can easily grow smelt and salmon in ponds.

May 03, 2010
Lake Mead
If a sharp drop in normal streamflow is not drought, what is it?

May 01, 2010
Water And Politics
So the goobernator will play politics with the words water/drought? Hmm

May 01, 2010
Previous El Nino Winters
2011 and 2012 won't be. 2013 and 2014 are anybody's guess.

May 01, 2010
What Is The Magic Number?
Give us a stat to put into perspective, would you?

Apr 29, 2010
California Supplies Food
All the lefties & Michelle Obama are screeching about the lack of healthy food in the downtrodden children's diets

Apr 28, 2010
Costa V. Haze
Democrats should turn out & support Haze just to show the Bee that there continued love fest between the Bee & Coasta is inappropriate

Apr 27, 2010
Doesn't Like Water Bond
There are many more reasons to vote against the bond. Here are a few:

Apr 26, 2010
Medieval Warm Period
However, the MWP deniers will never admit the existence of the MWP because it means that their religious-like belief in man-made global warming is exposed

Apr 25, 2010
No End To Dems Meddling
Isn't all of this an extension of community activism on a larger scale

Apr 25, 2010
I Can See November
Isn't that great?

Apr 25, 2010
Fed Power Grab
We need Reps and senators that will protect our rights not take them.

Apr 20, 2010
Selective Facts
Too bad she did not mention the 2010 Academy of Sciences report saying the pumps need to be curtailed

Apr 20, 2010
What The Report Did Not Say
The report also said there is a lack of science on the other stressors causing the fish decline

Apr 20, 2010
Commen Sense
How refreshing.

Apr 20, 2010
Nice Presentation of Facts
It is important that we allow the science that provides the facts to guide the discussion

Apr 18, 2010
Not About Smelt
This is not a water or a smelt issue.It's an assasination of the Central Valley farmer

Apr 17, 2010
Farmers Have Become Pawns
When we cannot find a solution to water for farming and fish that works, it's time to re-examine these laws.

Apr 16, 2010
Costa And Cardoza Are Happy
Wow!!!! can you believe it !!! 30% for water man and 70% for fish?

Apr 16, 2010
Water Allocation
How gracious of the federal government!

Apr 13, 2010
It's More Than Farm Jobs
There is an enormous employed infrastructure involved in AG???

Apr 13, 2010
Lunacy Getting Out Of Hand
Because of the shut off of the irrigation pumps thousand of people have lost their jobs

Apr 13, 2010
MWD Rate Hikes
Say, here?s a thought, why don?t we just kill everyone south of the pumps? That way the fish can thrive and no one will need any of their precious water

Apr 13, 2010
Dams and Protection
Dams provide 7 forms of resource protection

Apr 13, 2010
New Dams
All water supply issues for California could be solved with either the Marysville Dam or the Aubrun Dam

Apr 12, 2010
ABC Signs
There are already plenty of signs saying "ABC-Anyone But Costa" strewn about his district

Apr 12, 2010
Incumbents & Unions
The unions which own the legislature will get the legislature they want.

Apr 12, 2010
Phony Exchanges
What is discouraging is that there are 1) people willing to say things like this in order to keep their jobs

Apr 12, 2010
Costa, Miller An Act?
The inside fight is orchestrated to try and help save the two after they towed Nancy Pelosi's line all year.

Apr 11, 2010
Is Bond Worth It?
we need to all carefully read the specifics of the bond to see if we agree

Apr 11, 2010
Wherein Water Originates
It's insane to send water hundreds of miles from its origin.

Apr 11, 2010
We Get Government We Deserve
The last commodity California has that people really need is food

Apr 11, 2010
Battle Is Political
Can you imagine the City of Los Angeles not getting involved to ensure they will not have an interupion

Apr 10, 2010
Good Luck On Water
The judges,the liberal politicians ( Pelosi,Miller,Boxer,Feinstein,Cardoza and Costa) are owned by the enviro

Apr 07, 2010
Miller and Costa
Why wouldn't it be fair for those farmers closer to Hetch Hetchy to call our water - theirs? After all, it is coming from their back yard -

Apr 06, 2010
S.F. and Hetch-Hetchy
You are the ones who get a cheap ride from a resivoir located near Yosemite National Park

Apr 06, 2010
Water Isn't 'Free'
Second, the delivery mechanism has been provided to farmers and water districts at a steep discount, yes, but it's not free

Apr 06, 2010
Water Would Help Economy
Drive up I-5 and see the endless dust bowls. Instead that could be growing lush crops,

Apr 06, 2010
No Love Lost For 'Family Farms'
Just like logging, the steel industry, and the auto industry; it's time for huge 'family' farms to pay for the water they need to use.

Apr 04, 2010
Planted Fish Will Eat Smelt
If not, then why is feeding steelhead and salmon endangered smelt OK

Apr 04, 2010
Doubts Pilot Project
Does anybody remember the desalination plant just north of Hwy 152 east of Los Banos built in the 1970s

Apr 03, 2010
Likes Roos-Collins
He was one of the key voices in the historic Klamath River Settlement

Apr 03, 2010
Water Council Board
Now we see that the board is corrupt and of course we all know how corrupt Karen Bass was.

Apr 02, 2010
Parched Ground?
Parched ground? HA! We've just had four months of mud that the ground couldn't support an ATV

Apr 02, 2010
State Water And The Pumps
The State Water Project has lost about 500,000 acre-feet this year to the extreme regulation of the Delta pumps

Apr 02, 2010
Snowpack Is Deceptive
Damn snow, trying to trick us all into thinking it's really there when it isn't.

Apr 01, 2010
Support For Nunes
Devin, do not be moved by what you hear, feel or see.

Apr 01, 2010
The Libs Rule The Day
No matter what Devin introduces it will be shot down.

Apr 01, 2010
Acting Like Children
I thank Bee columnist Bill McEwen for his thoughts on the recent activity of Rep. Devin Nunes

Apr 01, 2010
'Warm and Fuzzy' Feeling For Salmon
It is just a "warm and fuzzy" day because we are going to have salmon come up the San Joaquin.

Apr 01, 2010
Environmental Groups And The Economy
I find it quite amazing: How these environmental groups take donations from their lemming followers

Mar 31, 2010
Feds Should Not Have Power
And where in the Constitution does the US government find the power to regulate California water? No where

Mar 31, 2010
Move To San Francisco
We can all sign up for food stamps,(ebt cart) and free medical care.

Mar 31, 2010
Need To Think About Ag
Calif orchards in the Central Valley are being bulldozed due to the lack of water. For those dense city dwellers, no water equals no crops

Mar 31, 2010
Developers and Water
I haven?t seen one ?Save Hetch Hetchy? bumper sticker in all of SF??..

Mar 31, 2010
Farm Land Is Gone
The birds are coming back. the kayakers are back; but Our food is gone

Mar 30, 2010
Less Water Means Less Food
Farmers will not lose 230,000 acre feet of water annually. A hungry world will lose food.

Mar 28, 2010
Protect The Dairy Industry
What has to stop is the Dudley Ridge Water Disrict from selling its water allotments

Mar 28, 2010
Biggest 'Stressor'
The biggest "stressor" here is that Carte blanche support for enviornomental whackos

Mar 26, 2010
Many Problems In The Delta
The report will examine the array of factors - not just water diversions - that are harming the Delta

Mar 26, 2010
Farming Getting More Difficult
He once told me that if a you didn't have experience writing a salary check for an employee and caring for their families

Mar 26, 2010
Farms Are Dying?
Yes, they are dying. With the government putting fish before food.

Mar 25, 2010
Sanity of Public Officials
These stoned wild-eyed Utopian zealots gravitated towards government and they have reached the pinnacle of power.

Mar 25, 2010
Hetch Hetchy Next?
Now why doesn't the Natural Resource Defense Council start work on restoring Hetch Hetchy?

Mar 25, 2010
Restoration Could Have Been Done Better
Another dam or two would have been needed above Millerton to provide enough water for fish

Mar 24, 2010
Nunes Uses Opposition Effectively
Nunes last week accused fellow Valley congressmen Dennis Cardoza and Jim Costa, both Democrats, of exchanging their support

Mar 24, 2010
Devin Stands For Principles
I admire that Devin holds his own.

Mar 24, 2010
Editorial Is Whining
We don't need Representatives who vote as ordered (ie. Costa and Cardoza) by those who don't have our best interests in mind.

Mar 23, 2010
Devin's Comments Were True
Of course we can settle for what mild mannered Jim Costa tells us

Mar 23, 2010
There Is A War Going On In This Country
McEwen - you want the old Nunes because you want milk toast for breakfast.

Mar 23, 2010
Supports Nunes
Devin Nunes is the only one who has the GUTS to say it like it is

Mar 22, 2010
Findings of 'Experts'
However, all too many of these "experts" are dependent upon that same government for their livelihoods - either as an employee or as a recipient of grants.

Mar 21, 2010
Doubts Cardoza's Sincere
Cardoza is making a mistake.

Mar 21, 2010
Remember in November
They got bought off with a serious increase in water allocations

Mar 21, 2010
Doesn't Trust Scientific Community
Let's see, high level scientists, also, said global warming and climate change would destroy the environment, 2009 would be a year of very bad hurricanes, the polar bears were nearing extinction

Mar 20, 2010
More Research is Needed
This is code for I do not have my next research grant, but this seems like an opportunity.

Mar 20, 2010
Look at More Than Stats
the 'panel of experts' which authored the report should be required to take up residence in one of the rural areas of the vally for 60 days in summer and 60 days in winter

Mar 19, 2010
Keep Voting for Democrats?
So, here once again the Left harms the very people they claim to "help."

Mar 19, 2010
Democrat Method of Legislation
This is insane! When did this country become a dictatorship run by Nancy Pelosi and a few top level Democrats?

Mar 18, 2010
Time To Wake Up
Now miraculously we don't need the fish anymore,

Mar 18, 2010
State Should Order The Water Turned On
I get so sick and tired of seeing states buckle under to the feds when all federal authority and money derives from the states

Mar 17, 2010
Vote Yes on Obamacare = Water
How ugly this administration is for all to see.

Mar 17, 2010
Allocation Keeps Getting Smaller
First it was going to 40% ,then 30% and now 25%; and people are happy?

Mar 17, 2010
Ag Has Compromised On Water Long Enough
I'm amazed at the Visalia Times-Delta's editorial board's lack of understanding on water.

Mar 17, 2010
Water And Health Care
The White House just bought off Costa and Cardoza. Salazar not only announced the increased water deliveries himself

Mar 16, 2010
25% Not Good Enough
I just hope that this increase will help some growers survive long enough for our leaders to get their heads removed from various orifices.

Mar 15, 2010
Offended By McEwen Column
Go to the Riverdale girls softball park, the little league field and the youth soccer fields

Mar 14, 2010
McEwen's Article
Farmers are old-fashioned I guess, but they have been raised to believe that a good deed

Mar 14, 2010
Costa
Must be election time?

Mar 13, 2010
Smelt Policy
Rules like this is why so many people and businesses are leaving this state.

Mar 12, 2010
Costa
I sure did not see you mention anything about what legislation you have introduced to fix any of it. Guess that is because there isn't any.

Mar 12, 2010
Costa
Where was Jim Costa when the vote really counted?

Mar 11, 2010
Farmers And Their Communities
Fresno State University: Do the names Shehadey/Ricchiuti ring a bell?

Mar 11, 2010
Temperance Flat
The fact is, despite your eagerness to bash CVP water users, public investment in projects like the CVP have huge economic benefits

Mar 11, 2010
McEwen's Article
Mr. McEwen I guess our politicians would rather see 40 percent unemployment in the San Joaquin Valley then actually make a stand against a "no science" law that puts fish over farming.

Mar 11, 2010
Paying for Dams
More water for the environment only, but humans continually have to take less and less and less

Mar 11, 2010
Environmental Regulations
This STATE RUN ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP HAS SUCKED THE TAX PAYERS DRY and DRIVEN INDUSTRY AND JOBS OUT OF THE STATE.

Mar 10, 2010
Exchange Contractors Deal
The Exchange Contractors historic water rights were intended to be upheld by their contract with the government.

Mar 09, 2010
FPTV Website
Never realized there was so much going on and how much politics controlled the outcome and not just the actual needs of the state or country as a whole

Mar 08, 2010
Water = Economic Activity
Is there any wonder why the State is seeing a $28 BILLION+ deficit; and the City of Fresno just announced a $28 MILLION short-fall?

Mar 08, 2010
Farm Economy Not That Bad
But agriculture revenue has actually increased. 38 billion in 2009. Lets see if drought was a consideration

Mar 07, 2010
Stressors in the Delta
Your characterization of the other "stressors in the Delta" as "Westlands talking points" does a disservice to the scientists

Mar 07, 2010
Can't Trust The Feds
The fact that we may receive 30% someday after planting season's over is of no comfort

Mar 07, 2010
Miller Was Disingenuous
He should tackle the hundreds of unscreened diversions in his district, and monitor the sewage his district spews into the Delta.

Mar 06, 2010
Concern About PG & E
Please take a close look at the ballot measure PG&E is putting on the ballot that would essentally kill public power in California.

Mar 06, 2010
Congress Created Drought
Millions of acre feet of clean water now flows to the ocean

Mar 05, 2010
Enviros Kill Jobs
We?ve had enough of the lies and broken promises!

Mar 01, 2010
Still No Guarantee
The Administration should immediately guarantee a 30 percent supply with a promise to assist in finding real water for the additional 10 percent

Mar 01, 2010
6 Fish?
Six dead fish and 46,000 farmworkers lose their jobs? All the rain we've been having and they don't capture it

Mar 01, 2010
5% Water and Salmon
Just because farmers are going to get a minimal allocation DOES NOT mean that the Salmon are goners

Feb 27, 2010
Environmental Consumption Is The Largest
If you are a farmer, you can not plant on maybe & might.

Feb 27, 2010
Gov't Taking From Farmers
We are paying these people to make up these little problems and then again to pretend like they can fix it.

Feb 27, 2010
Water Allocation
Lets get a few more government agencies to jump into this fray

Feb 26, 2010
Farmers and the Delta
During the past two years, agriculture has received its lowest allocations on record, yet species continue to decline.

Feb 26, 2010
Water and Control
We have plenty of water, it is just a political device to control farmers, drive up prices, please the State Department

Feb 26, 2010
Miller and Smelt
It is time to retire Mr. Miller and take Boxer and Feinstein with you.

Feb 26, 2010
Miller's Disdain
It?s an instant jobs bill. Just add water

Feb 26, 2010
California Should Solve Its Own Problems
Its time for the State to beef up its own water system and stop relying on the feds.

Feb 25, 2010
How Do We Afford Water Bond?
Why not spend the approximate $8 billion in unspent Prop.E and Prop 84 water bond $$ before incurring more debt?

Feb 25, 2010
Diane, We're Still Waiting
Diane the logging industry is still waiting for your help after you stopped logging in the National Forests

Feb 25, 2010
Political Sincerity
Then they back peddle when the public cries out, just to make it look as though they care so they can get re-elected

Feb 25, 2010
Farmers Need Water
I'm not a big Feinstein fan but the idea to get more water to the valley region is a good one and should be supported

Feb 25, 2010
Driving Farmers Out Of Business
If we don't work to preserve agriculture in conjuction with our natural resources in this state and in this nation, we will eventually be in the same position with our food supply in this country as are we are with our oil supply

Feb 24, 2010
How Much Water?
The water problems which plague California have nothing to do with the amount of water it receives

Feb 24, 2010
Compromise
No one has what it takes to stand up for what is right except for a few like Congressman Nunes.

Feb 24, 2010
'Practical' Nunes
This is not "HIS" agenda. It is our agenda

Feb 24, 2010
Artificial Ceiling
Yes, 40% water allotment does sound better than 10%, but why not fight for 100%? Does she really think we are just a bunch of uneducated Valley folks

Feb 24, 2010
Food Creates Sewage
We should all be against food and water. Don't eat or drink any of it

Feb 23, 2010
Jobs Lost
I live in Fresno and have seen the devastation in people's lives out on the West Side

Feb 23, 2010
Saving the Fish
Shutting the water off to save a fish isn't saving the fish

Feb 22, 2010
How To Fight
What you have to do is fight them back on different terms. Pressure your State legislators to exempt your whole state of the abuses of Endangered species act

Feb 22, 2010
Save the Fish! Kill the Farmer!
Maybe all of the farm workers who will be out of a job can start fishing for smelt.

Feb 22, 2010
Big Ag And The Economy
state workers, university professors contribute not one cent into our economy, just the opposite

Feb 22, 2010
Fantasyland
Well how bout that. More hydro projects, the very kind that makes the enviro whackadoodles soil themselves.

Feb 21, 2010
Idled Land On I-5
This water affects hundreds of thousands of people. The fish are for a few, but the crops and livestock are for many

Feb 21, 2010
Sewage In The Delta
This water contains prescription and illegal drugs not removed from the wastewater that flows directly into the Delta.

Feb 21, 2010
Elected Leaders Have Responsibility
Jim Costa, Dean Florez and Juan Arambula all have some significant responsibility for this mess as well.

Feb 20, 2010
Quintanar Issues Challenge
if they support the pork, I mean "jobs bill", in order to pass the water legislation, the left will point out how they betrayed conservative by supporting more government spending.

Feb 20, 2010
Feinstein Won't Succeed
I tried, but was outvoted, but I feel your pain".

Feb 20, 2010
Outstanding Bonds
We have too many outstanding bonds right now

Feb 20, 2010
Manipulating Polls
99.9% of the people polled have little to no idea of what's at stake, let alone what this ballot measure would do to them or for them.

Feb 20, 2010
Past Water Bonds
Maybe they would find it easier to get the money if they would actually come through on the projects we have voted for in the past.

Feb 19, 2010
Lost Jobs
As the Valley dries up, the implications are immense. Our tax base will be reduced and that will affect our ability to provide the services our residents need and deserve. In this case, gallons equals dollars

Feb 19, 2010
Damage By California Politicians
The damage inflicted by California's politicians is incalculable. Their budgets are not only unbalanced, they are also fraudulent

Feb 19, 2010
Compromise
When the state has received above average rainfall, but will only deliver 40% of the contracted amount to the Valley, that is the definition of a compromise

Feb 19, 2010
Feinstein Doesn't Care
Feinstein never helped the loggers; Feinstein does not care about the San Joaquin Valley.

Feb 18, 2010
Sen. Feinstein
What is wrong with you people???? Senator Feinstein is doing exactly the right thing.

Feb 18, 2010
Smelt V. Farmers
Any human being who feels it's justifiable to shut off water to millions of PEOPLE and force thousands of families to the brink of starvation

Feb 18, 2010
Cardoza
Little late in showing your fangs now Denny

Feb 17, 2010
L.A. Times
If our land is unsuited for agriculture, how did we become the most productive farmers in the nation

Feb 17, 2010
L.A. Times
Hello LA Times editorial board. Any amendment that increases water exports from the Delta helps YOU! As in the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

Feb 17, 2010
Cutting Off The Water
What kind of govrn. do we have that ruins family farms and puts thousands out of work

Feb 16, 2010
Water Tied To Jobs Bill
I find it typical that Sen. Feinstein makes this discovery and pushes it forward for the valley and then ties it to the Jobs Bill

Feb 16, 2010
Westlands Does Not Sell Water
I am in Westlands and Westlands does NOT sell water outside the district.

Feb 16, 2010
Selling Water
But explain to me why Sandridge Partners should be able t sell the publics waters at an obscene profit of over $70 Milllion?

Feb 15, 2010
Water Wasted Going To The Ocean
At least 76% of the water that reaches the delta is being flushed to the Ocean

Feb 15, 2010
Di Fi
Agribusiness is a large and important component of our economy, and the factors affecting how our statewide water recourse system can best be used

Feb 15, 2010
People Out Of Work
Maybe she cares about the thousands of farmworkers

Feb 15, 2010
Tear Down The Dams
SF would not have water, due to the loss of Hetch Hetchy, but the salmon would be happy

Feb 14, 2010
Shutting Down The Pumps
But shutting down the pumps has not resulted in anything close to a ?remedy.? Your logic is fallacious and illogical: ?something?s wrong with my car so I will disable the gas and water pumps

Feb 14, 2010
Water Flows To The Sea
They are not just bankrupting the farms but the farm workers and local and state tax revenues as well

Feb 14, 2010
Politicians Don't Know
Great article. You are working with politicians and environmentalists that have no idea where their food comes from.

Feb 14, 2010
Two Gates
99.9% of the farmers from Buttonwillow to Los Banos are not billionaires. In fact there is probably only one.

Feb 14, 2010
Feinstein V. Napolitano
detailing her many concerns with Feinstein's proposal to amend the jobs bill with a provision to send more water to Ag.

Feb 14, 2010
Attempt To Save Democrats
This is an attempt to save democrats jobs

Feb 13, 2010
'No Pumping' Hasn't Helped
Two years of major pumping restrictions and all threatened species are worse off...

Feb 13, 2010
Sea Lions
people that lived at the mouth of the rivers use to shoot the seals!! They always had plenty of salmon!!

Feb 13, 2010
Bush's Fault
Bush' Fault

Feb 13, 2010
Boxer Great For Business
that is great for businesses that do not reside in California

Feb 13, 2010
Anyone But Boxer
She is not concerned with Californians, or our ability to live, work ,and be happy

Feb 13, 2010
Sea Lions V. Salmon
You have to be smoking some of that medical marijuana not to see the effect sea lions are having on the Chinook salmon population

Feb 12, 2010
Destroying Ag
But the nut case environmentalists will have the required number of Delta smelt.

Feb 12, 2010
Diane Feinstein
Anything the Senator does that annoys her fellow party members is fine by me.

Feb 12, 2010
Farmers and Salmon
Just my opinion, but, I think it is very wrong to endanger the salmon and the entire delta ecosystem while people water lawns in the suburbs.

Feb 12, 2010
River Restoration
the environmentalists will find a new species living in the retored river and prevent water conservation. Does anyone know what they rules are in an event such as that?

Feb 12, 2010
Looney Left
The loony progressive left is destroying public sector jobs

Feb 11, 2010
6 Fish
Do you know how many Delta Smelt were entrained (sucked

Feb 11, 2010
Texans for Farmers
I?m just a citizen from Texas who wants nothing but for these people to be able to farm and feed their families.

Feb 10, 2010
Leave The Pumps On!
Why are we begging the "Man" to allow us to live? Are we really going to go through last summer again? Perhaps it is time to stand up collectively and say, no

Feb 10, 2010
How Stupid Are We?
But the Smelt are the main concern now because they are so important to the environment. The salmon ?

Feb 10, 2010
Fish Before People
Awesome to know that useless little fish come before people (not considering the fact that several environmental agencies have already said that an insignificant number of the smelt get sucked into the pumps).

Feb 09, 2010
Pumping Rules Kill Jobs
I would like to see how the President and Congress is going to create jobs if they let the enviromentalist kill jobs in the California Ag industry.

Feb 09, 2010
Sheriff and Pumps
All that has to happen to end this lunacy is for the Sheriff of the affected counties to declare State's Rights under the Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution, demand that the pumps be turned back on

Feb 09, 2010
Ag V. Lawns
As for those of naively criticize agriculture for using water to grow crops - just my opinion but you are very wrong to do so as long as people have yards

Feb 09, 2010
Politicians
If we could only build a dam

Feb 08, 2010
Foreign Produce
I guess the Senators think its 'cheaper' to have produce, meat etc shipped into the USA then to let the farmers have water. In the meantime, is anyone watching

Feb 08, 2010
Foreign Avacados
the jacking up of the water rates and the cold hearted denial of water to the San Jacquin valley farmers and others has caused a "drought" in avocado production.

Feb 07, 2010
Kern River Water
There are no doubts about the fighting going on in Bakersfield over flowing water down the Kern River. (Bet you thought all the water wars were raging in the Delta.)

Feb 07, 2010
Man and Nature
The mindless rant of Californiacated is exactly the type of thinking that will make the human race an endangered speciaes . He seems to forget, if he ever knew,

Feb 07, 2010
Dams and Fish
I don't see this doing much good for a bunch of fish to begin with. That water should only be released from the dams only if there is a danger of overflow.

Feb 07, 2010
Boon Swaggled
Isn't it amazing, that a group of environmentalists have "boon swaggled" their membership into believe that taking water from producing farmers for a fish

Feb 06, 2010
Salmon Fishermen
Salmon Fishermen, Did you read this?" "Currently, that number is calculated at 22,897 juvenile winter-run salmon. But in January, only 1,154 were found in the pumps -- or about 5% of the limit."

Feb 06, 2010
Delta Smelt
Who here (folks in attendance) eats Delta Smelt? or who has ever heard of that fish before we stopped giving water to the valley to produce vegetables and keep the farming in the central valley going?

Feb 05, 2010
Agribusiness
I really know nothing about Westlands, being an East Coast fifth generation farm family and all. And I have absolutely no "beef" with fisherman. Fisherman, farmers....we are the people who put food on the American table

Feb 04, 2010
Delta Problems
Even the most highly respected scientist can't say for certain what the problems are in the delta. In fact, some scientist are saying that it could be a combination of factors.

Feb 04, 2010
Response to 'Agribusiness'
Hello there Mr. or Mrs. Anonymous, Jim didn't call Westlands an "agri-business", but an "agri-business group", and though maybe the term isn't 100% correct, I tried to come up with a better one

Feb 04, 2010
Agribusiness
The term "agribusiness" is used negatively by critics of large-scale, industrialized, food production, that is synonymous with corporate farming. So I am a little confused

Feb 03, 2010
Dellta Toilet
When I say toilet, I'm talking about the over 1 billion gallons a day of sewage are being dumped into the delta. How can a radical eviro allow this to continue???

Feb 03, 2010
The Smelt
It is sad to see that a little minnow that does not effect the ecosystem at all is causing the best farmland in America to dry up.

Feb 03, 2010
Ever Work for a Poor Man?
Of course not. It takes someone with an idea as well as money to start a business and create jobs.

Feb 03, 2010
ESA
Anyone who attended yesterday's hearing had to recognize the need for changes being made to the 35 year old Endangered Species Act (ESA). When the human suffering

Feb 01, 2010
Big V. Small
Truth be told, there is no need for an either/or stance on this topic of big vs. small farms. There is room for small farms, large farms, organic and conventional.

Feb 01, 2010
Interior
The Administration has basically ignored the issue and hoped it would go away. Ken Salazar has paid a couple of obligatory visits and makes big announcements that basically say nothing

Feb 01, 2010
Environmentalism
Environmentalism is fraud. This is another case where a crisis is manufactured in order to pursue

Jan 30, 2010
David Hayes
David Hayes' hand has been exposed. He's had a vindetta against Westside agriculture dating back to the early '90's,

Jan 30, 2010
Salazar Had to Know
Salazar had to know that what he was saying was an outright lie,

Jan 30, 2010
Comment On Independent Panel
Thank you for drawing attention to this important matter. We have just finished reviewing the response prepared by the latest panel, and it may be helpful to your readers to understand the history

Jan 29, 2010
The Constitution Is A Stubborn Document
The Natural Resource Defense Council's Barry Nelson doesn't like what Pacific Legal Foundation is doing when it comes to California's water.

Jan 29, 2010
Drought
We're at 130% percent of normal, of course the drought isn't over,

Jan 28, 2010
Water Derivitives
?It seems the protagonists havent heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Entropy, or, for kindergartners, Humpty-Dumpty.

Oct 17, 2009
Let's keep farm water on the farm
But while we are at it, let's pass a law whereby water rights to farmers are restricted for farmland use only so no water rights can be sold or given to metropolitan agencies.

Oct 02, 2009
Is reality part of the equation?
I am curious as to what the water temperature is in the San Joaquin River downstream of Firebaugh during the time that these envirenmentalists expect the Salmon to migrate

Sep 17, 2009
Any good appraiser or lender will tell you the same story
In fact comparable sales of land clearly distinguish the differentials in value based upon the availability and dependability of a good quality water supply.

Sep 16, 2009
What is the value of farmland without water available for it?
The absence of water not only kills our agricultural economy and heritage...

Sep 16, 2009
Let's come together
The people of agriculture run this state and it is time we retake ownership.

Sep 16, 2009
How much is property worth without water?
Gentlemen: If this bunch in Sacto don't release the water to irrigate the valley, there will be many more than 18,000 families without income!

Sep 15, 2009
Federal government is ignoring a national emergency
We the people need to go turn on the pumps!!!

Sep 15, 2009
Radio ads
Nice work on the radio ads.

Sep 14, 2009
Health care like water care?
You can live without a doctor for many years, but how long can you live without water?

Sep 14, 2009
Go team
Thank you so much for your hard work to help get our water back on.

Sep 10, 2009
Nice article in response to Salazar's comments
It will amaze us all how quickly the environmental issues will disappear once the elite have acquired all the rights and assets they need to provide sufficient water to their constituents.

Sep 06, 2009
Thank you and go get em'
I will gladly post your info, newsletter and website on the board for the locals.

Sep 04, 2009
History is repeating itself
Please tell me if Terror Famine is what is happening to our California...

Sep 03, 2009
Best commercial that I have seen about our water crisis
This commercial really got us all to thinking and actually gave me goose bumps to think that we would have to be dependant on foreign imports when we are so far advanced than most countries.

Sep 03, 2009
My family and myself are interested
As a farming family we are 100% supportive.

Aug 31, 2009
Am I reading correctly?
Am I reading Gilkey/Howe comments correctly that they are supportive of selling valley water to MWD?

Aug 07, 2009
Unacceptable sewage dumping
I called the Sacramento Sewage Department and asked what the deal was and their response was that they did not treat the water they dumped into the Sacramento River for ammonia because it would be costly and raise the monthly rates for their customers.