Public Responses

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

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

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

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
My family and myself are interested
As a farming family we are 100% supportive.

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.

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.