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<h1><span style='color:black'>Sen Dianne Feinstein's fishy water deal<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=date><b><span style='color:black'>Monday, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Sen. Dianne Feinstein should drop her end-run
bid to ship delta water south for farming. Her plan defies court rulings,
endangered-species protections and scientific studies.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p><b><span style='color:black'>The water grab disrupts years of negotiations
over balancing the state's needs by rewarding one group - drought-stricken
farmers - at the expense of fishing and environmental groups, also living with
declining water supplies. Worse yet, Feinstein's action short-circuits a study
she ordered up by the National Academy of Sciences on river-flow rules designed
to safeguard smelt and salmon.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The senator was at pains to explain that her
idea is only in draft form, suggesting that it may be a negotiating tactic.
She's plainly frustrated over limits on water usage, given a heavy Sierra
snowpack, rivers filled by winter storms and record jobless levels in the
Central Valley. It's an approach she took last year when she pushed for the
study of water policy, due this spring.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>She's advanced a plausible argument, but any
solution needs analysis and group agreement. Water deliveries to some farmers
are 10 percent of past levels, and she's proposing to boost these allotments to
30 to 40 percent. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Feinstein's plan would greatly help the parched
west side of the San Joaquin Valley, where farmers have idled hundreds of
thousands of acres for lack of water. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>But her suggestion couldn't come at a worse
time. Last year, Sacramento leaders reached a bipartisan solution on
improvements to the delta's depleted water levels, a breakthrough deal built on
concessions from all sides. Feinstein's push to reward one interest group is
"like throwing a grenade into everything we worked on last year,"
said Assemblyman Jared Huffman, a San Rafael Democrat who played a key
negotiating role. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>In addition, a fishery management report last
week found that Sacramento River salmon stocks are at a record low point, a
level that may lead to the third straight canceled fishing season. The fish
depend on steady flows in the river, a main source for water Feinstein wants
diverted.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>California water policy needs a political
champion willing to take on a complicated issue. That means adopting a balanced
approach, not one that bails out one side at the expense of all others. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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