farmers were laying feilds in fallow, letting fruit and nut trees die. food prices increases will eventually increase.
They are basically growing crops in a desert. The Gov. want to build more dams to create storage. If the farmers take all the water there will be nothing left for southern Cal.
Then there was an esturary protected by old earten levies. If they fail all the fresh water around the delta will become salty - It will be cal's katrine.
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80 islands and 1,600 miles of levees in the Central Valley are reaching their breaking point, and action needs to be taken. Experts throughout the day took the podium and offered bleak outlooks on the future of the Delta, and their respective views on the recent water package passed by the state legislature. Multiple speakers said the Delta cannot and will not be restored to the way it was in the mid-1850s or even several decades ago and California's water system needs to be overhauled and climate change must be accounted for when deciding future Delta projects.
Cost estimates for a long-sought but hotly debated canal to carry water around the Delta have doubled in the past year, increasing to the point that boring tunnels may be an attractive and less controversial project.
The numbers are preliminary, but the cost of buying the land, designing and building a Peripheral Canal around the Delta's eastern flank has soared from $4.2 billion to between $7.9 billion and $8.5 billion, according to state Department of Water Resources. The latest figures are closing in on a roughly $10 billion cost of sending the water through a pair of tunnels beneath the Delta.
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