[Jamo]

Ron...this IS an interesting thread. There is no reason for bullsh!t to be thrown around by others.

And so folks understand what we both know...the Sacramento water does not go directly to farms and LA...only the peripheral canal or the new concept of tunnels would do that. Instead, gates are opened on the south end of the Delta to deliver water down the CVP canal to San Luis Res. (a holding facility) and then transferred south from there. The Sacramento River water displaces what is drawn from the south.

We also now have the San Joaquin River flowing all the way to the Delta along its natural course, save for a section near Los Banos where the natural course is displaced by the Eastern Bypass for better flood control. So, it's not a lack of water flowing through the Delta that is hurting it. Like I said earlier...it's the lack of quality...salt intrusian and urban runoff. The gates have been shut down by Judge Wanger's rulings (following current law...not his fault) because the smelt get sucked into them...

...which is why the peripheral canal was supposed to be built decades ago...the pumps were devised as the cheap alternative.