Wesley J. Smith on National Review highlights how overburdensome environmental policies in California are making droughts worse.
- Excessive government red tape is making droughts worse in California.
- Since 1979 the state has not constructed a single large-scale water storage project, despite the fact that its population has significantly grown.
- Even today radical environmentalists in the state are looking to tear down existing reservoirs.
- If California wants to more adequately deal with climate change’s effects, it should look to first build more water storage.
“In 1979, California’s population was a little more than 23 million. Today, it is more than 39 million. Yet in that entire time, California did not construct one additional, large-scale water storage project – meaning water infrastructure that once suited the state’s irrigation, livestock, and human needs has become chronically inadequate to meet its essential tasks.”
Read the full article here.
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