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California turns back the taps
Sep 18th, 2007 by Administrator |

Christian Science Monitor: Can Californians cope with a court-ordered drought on top of a natural one? They’ll soon find out as they’re forced to reduce their water use for the sake of a three-inch silvery fish, the delta smelt. A federal judge ruled last month that the state must reduce its water draw on the West’s largest delta by up to 37 percent. This is to save the delta’s smelt, which was declared endangered in 1993. It can’t outswim the pumps that export trillions of gallons of water from the Sacramento …

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