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Alan wrote:
> 
> It was good enough for you to cite.


Let's talk about your running away from this massive lie you tendered on 
Trump:





https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/22/delta-smelt-fish-trump-california-aoe

"Last fall, Trump signed a memorandum directing federal agencies to 
review and roll back environmental standards slowing down the flow of 
water to farms in the Central Valley. In February this year, the 
president nominated David Bernhardt to serve as his interior secretary.

...turning down the pumps isn’t quite as easy as shutting off a faucet. 
The multi-story state and federal pumping plants operate in tandem and 
are powerful enough to make rivers flow backward.

If the delta smelt go, California may be able to pump some more."

https://envirobites.org/2019/06/24/farmers-vs-fish-the-story-of-delta-smelt/

"To move water around, over 1,400 dams and miles of aqueducts have been 
constructed. A tidal wetland-turned-agricultural land, the Sacramento – 
San Joaquin Delta is the center of California’s water distribution 
system. About half of California’s developed water moves through the 
delta via two pumping plants: Central Valley Project (CVP) and the State 
Water Project."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project

"The Central Valley Project (CVP) is a federal power and water 
management project in the U.S. state of California under the supervision 
of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). It was devised in 
1933 in order to provide irrigation and municipal water to much of 
California's Central Valley—by regulating and storing water in 
reservoirs in the northern half of the state (once considered water-rich 
but suffering water-scarce conditions more than half the year in most 
years), and transporting it to the water-poor San Joaquin Valley and its 
surroundings by means of a series of canals, aqueducts and pump plants, 
some shared with the California State Water Project (SWP). Many CVP 
water users are represented by the Central Valley Project Water Association.


Two large reservoirs, Shasta Lake and Trinity Lake, are formed by a pair 
of dams in the mountains north of the Sacramento Valley. Water from 
Shasta Lake flows into the Sacramento River which flows to the 
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and water from Trinity Lake flows into the 
Trinity River which leads to the Pacific Ocean. Both lakes release water 
at controlled rates. There, before it can flow on to San Francisco Bay 
and the Pacific Ocean, some of the water is intercepted by a diversion 
channel and transported to the Delta-Mendota Canal, which conveys water 
southwards through the San Joaquin Valley, supplying water to San Luis 
Reservoir (a SWP-shared facility) and the San Joaquin River at Mendota 
Pool in the process, eventually reaching canals that irrigates farms in 
the valley. Friant Dam crosses the San Joaquin River upstream of Mendota 
Pool, diverting its water southwards into canals that travel into the 
Tulare Lake area of the San Joaquin Valley, as far south as the Kern 
River. Finally, New Melones Lake, a separate facility, stores water flow 
of a San Joaquin River tributary for use during dry periods. Other 
smaller, independent facilities exist to provide water to local 
irrigation districts"

https://water.ca.gov/programs/state-water-project

https://water.ca.gov/Programs/State-Water-Project/Operations-and-Maintenance


Big old shutoff valve = check!