SACRAMENTO -- After decades of fighting farmers in court over how much water they can take out of California's rivers and streams, some state lawmakers want to try something different: use taxpayer money to buy out farmers.
Legally, all of the water in California is the property of the government. But farmers have"water rights" that let them take water for agriculture. Farmers have used those rights — governed by a complicated system based on seniority and other factors — to turn California's Central Valley into an agricultural powerhouse that provides much of the nation's fruits, nuts and vegetables.
"It's like we're taking a page from corporate America and we're buying back stock," said state Sen. Bob Wieckowski, a Democrat who represents the San Francisco Bay Area and is chair of a budget subcommittee overseeing environmental spending. Still, Birmingham says the idea"makes an awful lot of sense" because"it is a means by which conflict can be avoided."
Water rights? Who owns mother nature nowadays? What's next? Reselling banana peels nowadays? The end definition of capitalism is kaput actually + you can see the desperation in what people are trying to sell us + own water? We don't actually own anything here the banks do! Lol
i can vote, i got high level respect for law and order: starting in 2005: they have stolen a lot of the black votes through keeping blacks unemployed mainly, especially black men, they are using third world people to attack black Americans in SF
Behind the KKK: the Asian are the worst, they have and will attack black American for white American, they don't respect law at all, if they even know the law, they are trying to force this DA out of office because he will not give them special treatment
The looney looney Left strikes again!
Why don’t we claw back all those aquifers we *SOLD* in the Monterey Accords?!!! eminentdomain
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