Maybe this statement that I cut from a history of the Sacramento River will help people understand that the water here doesn't go to Los Angles or any other area past the San Francisco Bay. We even have people here that have moved up here from Orange County claiming that they got their water from here. I never intended to start a big argument about water when I started this thread. Just trying to point out that if we keep building and demanding more and more of it, there is going to one of these days be a serious shortage of fresh water. The high usage of water from the Sacramento is what is letting the salt water creep farther and farther into the Delta Area. I believe that Jamo mentioned in an earlier post that the farmers there told him that it wasn't the amount so much as the quality of water that was going to hurt them.
San Francisco Bay is also the spot at which California’s two greatest river systems, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, first mingle with salt water before reaching the Pacific at the Golden Gate.
Ron
