Judge: Water delivery system harms Calif. salmon

By GARANCE BURKE , Associated Press Writer, Space & Earth science / Environment

(AP) -- A federal judge ruled Friday that California's water systems threaten to push native, wild salmon into extinction but stopped short of ordering any immediate water cutbacks farmers said would have cost them millions in lost crops.

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Posted by GrayMouser 07/26/08 21:52

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The design water delivery system in California is a shame, it has been for 30 years. It exists solely to move water from Northern California, and the Colorado river, to Southern California where the money and political power is. (But being born and raised in N. California I may be slightly biased...)