Yes, they have been living in harmony and in great numbers before more water was extracted that the resource can stand. Stripers are naturalized citizens and tests of have only indicated minimum predation. Unless you want to first eliminate all the squawfish, largemouth bass, and shad, lets bring back our fantastic striped bass populations. More Water will bring back the salmon, steelhead, stripers, and shad to their great historical levels.
The present capacity of the pumps are about 10,000 cfs. The peripheral canal, if you vote for the bond issue, will bring it up to 15,000 cfs. Our fishery demands only a 3,000 cfs removal. Why do you, the taxpayer, have to pay to irrigate the entire Mojave Desert?
In 2005 Westland Water District farmers paid between $8/af and $27.57/af
dependent on their location. If they had to pay the Bureau of Reclamation's cost based on how it was to be calculated in 1982, the 2005 subsidized price would have been $55.20/af. Oddly these prices do not include the full major energy and construction costs to pump the water to Westlands. That would bring it to much more than $170/af. Pumping this water requires one of the greatest uses of energy in the state. In 2003 the Environmental Water Account was paying $129.48/af to buy water back from these thieves.
I just looked at our home water bill. We used 7,921 gallons over a three month period starting in March and as far as I can tell, we paid the City of Sunnyvale at $666.42/af
Estimates of the water subsidy ranged from $24 million to $110 million — all of which went to just 422 farms. Some Westlands farmers are also getting a double helping of government subsidies. These "double dippers" not only get federal irrigation water delivered at cut-rate prices, they then turn around and get cash payments from the government for growing subsidized crops they have irrigated with highly subsidized water. Matching up names and addresses in our crop and water subsidy databases, EWG found that 37 percent of farms in Westlands were double dipping in 2002, with crop subsidy payments alone averaging $144,345 per farm. Overall, these 156 farms got crop subsidy checks worth $22.5 million in 2002.
You're also paying the cost of the latest game in town, Water Districts making big profits, from the sale of the water they they get, that we subsidize.
http://www.ewg.org/node/8585
http://www...t_formula.htm#calculator
http://aquafornia.com/
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