{"id":2343,"date":"2009-10-27T01:18:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T01:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2009-10-27T01:28:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T01:28:57","slug":"starving-farmers-of-water-for-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2343","title":{"rendered":"Starving Farmers of Water&#8230; For Nothing."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Starving%20Farmers%20of%20Water...%20For%20Nothing.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Well, the results are in. The scientific opinions that recommended that the way to save the Delta Smelt was to shut off the water supply to the West San Joaquin Valley farmers&#8230;\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t work. As farmers were forced to watch as their fields dried and went fallow,\u00a0 shutting off the pumps that divert the water from the Delta to the San Luis Reservoir did nothing to help the endangered fish. It&#8217;s population <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2272654.html?pageNum=2&amp;mi_pluck_action=page_nav#Comments_Container\">continued to decline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2344\" title=\"4R22SMELT.xlgraphic.prod_affiliate.4\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/4R22SMELT.xlgraphic.prod_affiliate.4.gif\" alt=\"4R22SMELT.xlgraphic.prod_affiliate.4\" width=\"500\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/4R22SMELT.xlgraphic.prod_affiliate.4.gif 500w, https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/4R22SMELT.xlgraphic.prod_affiliate.4-300x293.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now maybe the feds will look at the more obvious reason why the fish are dying &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cacoastkeeper.org\/news\/sacramento-area-is-delta%27s-top-pesticide-source,-study-finds\">pollution in the Delta<\/a>.\u00a0 But that would mean that the folks in the state capital, the spineless liberal pseudo-environmentalist legislators who did nothing while farms were going dry and farm hands and ag related business were going bankrupt, might have to finally have to enforce some tough regulations on their constituents in the surrounding communities, instead of farming the pain out to those who didn&#8217;t vote for them.<\/p>\n<p>PS. As I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=1341\">in a previous post<\/a>, one of my customers runs an agricultural spraying business, spraying crops with pesticides and fertilizers. Their business was down 75% this year. They will not survive next year if the feds shut off the water as they did this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Starving%20Farmers%20of%20Water...%20For%20Nothing.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Well, the results are in. The scientific opinions that recommended that the way to save the Delta Smelt was to shut off the water supply to the West San Joaquin Valley farmers&#8230;\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t work. As farmers were forced to watch as their fields dried and went fallow,\u00a0 shutting off the pumps that divert the water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}