<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="" style=""><a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227-story.html#page=1" class="" style="">http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227-story.html#page=1</a><br style="" class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: LAHeadline, serif; font-size: 58px; line-height: 56px;" class="">Sen. Dianne Feinstein's role as water referee is complicated by drought</span><br class="" style=""></div><header class="" data-sharelines="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; clear: both; font-family: Times; font-size: 10px;"><div class="" style="width: calc(100% - 340px); float: left;"><div class="" style="display: inline-block;
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35px; display: block; ; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s; transition: all 0.1s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); top: calc(50% - 22px);" href=""><span class="" data-role="socialshare_share socialshare_setdefault" data-socialshare-type="twitter" style="width: 40px; height: 43px; float: left; cursor: pointer; font-family: trb_Icons; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 21px; display: inline-block; line-height: 23px;"></span></a><span class="" data-role="socialshare_sharetext" style="display: inline-block; width: calc(100% - 60px); font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 14px 1px 14px 60px;">Fights over California's water have left Sen. Dianne Feinstein bruised, especially in recent weeks</span></div><div class="" data-role="socialshare_item" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; min-height: 44px;
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transition: all 0.1s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); top: calc(50% - 22px);" href=""><span class="" data-role="socialshare_share socialshare_setdefault" data-socialshare-type="twitter" style="width: 40px; height: 43px; float: left; cursor: pointer; font-family: trb_Icons; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 21px; display: inline-block; line-height: 23px;"></span></a><span class="" data-role="socialshare_sharetext" style="display: inline-block; width: calc(100% - 60px); font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 14px 1px 14px 60px;">Can Sen. Feinstein keep a balance between agricultural, environmental interests when it comes to Calif. water?</span></div></div><div itemprop="datePublished" class="" style="line-height: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.5px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: left;"><time class=""
datetime="2014-12-26T17:00:00PST" data-datetime-timezone="PST" data-datetime-month="December" data-datetime-monthshort="Dec." data-datetime-day="26" data-datetime-year="2014" data-datetime-weekday="Friday" data-datetime-weekdayshort="Fri." data-datetime-fullclock="5:00:00 PM" data-datetime-clock="5:00 PM" data-datetime-hour="5 PM" data-datetime-daydiff="-2 days left" style=""></time><span data-content-dateline="Reporting From WASHINGTON" class="" style=""></span></div></header><section class="" data-role="panelmod_articleBody" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; clear: left; width: 1005px; font-family: Times; font-size: 10px;"><div itemprop="article" data-role="panelmod_articleBodyParagraphs" class="" style=""><div class="" data-role="pagination_page" data-content-page="1" style=""><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;"
class="">The long-range weather forecast is the biggest wild card in the battle over every available bucket of water in drought-stricken California — but a close second may be Dianne Feinstein.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">In a dispute in which positions have hardened after years of fighting, the state's senior U.S. senator, who is expected to broker any deal that reallocates water supply, is one of the few remaining enigmas. The only thing consistent about Feinstein's role as water referee is that the fights have left bruises on the exacting and thick-skinned senator over the years. The last few weeks have been particularly rough.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px;
line-height: 27px;" class="">A year that started with Central Valley figures branding her a radical environmentalist and Bay Area dilettante ended with accusations from once-friendly colleagues and liberal editorial boards that the 22-year veteran of the Senate was shilling for Big Agriculture.</div><br class="" style=""><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">For months, Feinstein had tried to craft a compromise drought relief bill by negotiating a water deal behind closed doors with the state's major agricultural interests. Late in Congress' lame-duck session, those talks collapsed. No legislation got passed.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">Yet Feinstein is
eager to get back in the ring as soon as Congress picks up again in January.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">"We can't wait for more rain, we need to be able to do more with what we have," she said in an email.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">Even when Republicans take over the Senate next year, Feinstein will probably remain the chamber's arbiter of California water. Long-standing tradition in the Senate is not to mess with water policy in a state without the support of at least one of its senators.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size:
18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">As she gears back up, one key factor will be Feinstein's ability — and willingness — to maintain a careful balance between agriculture and the state's numerous and vocal environmental activists.</div><aside class="" data-role="panelmod_container imgsize_ratiosizecontainer" data-load-type="noop" data-panelmod-type="relatedContent" style="margin: 20px 0px 20px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; float: right; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); clear: right; position: relative; left: 20px; z-index: 25; width: 360px;"><div class="" style="display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; width: 340px; min-width: 340px; max-width: 340px; position: relative; z-index: 1000; padding-right: 10px; height: 160px;"><br class="" style=""><dl class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; clear: none; width: calc(100% - 150px); float: left; height: 109px; overflow: hidden;"><dd
class="" style=""><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-drought-report-monitor-rain-20141218-story.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 84, 67);" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px; font-family: LAHeadline, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); word-break: normal;">California drought weakens, forecasters have 'cautious optimism' for future</span></a></dd></dl><span class="" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: uppercase; white-space: nowrap; padding: 6px 0px 0px 10px; clear: right; float: right;"><a class="" href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227-story.html#" data-role="panelmod_opener" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">SEE ALL RELATED</a></span></div><div class="" data-role="panelmod_opener" style="display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle;
border-right-width: 10px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: transparent; overflow: hidden; width: 55px; -webkit-transform: translateX(-25px); cursor: pointer;"><div class="" style="width: 55px;"><div class="" style="position: relative; left: 35px;"></div><a class="" href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227-story.html#" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; display: block; min-height: 56px; position: relative; left: 5px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: right;">8</a><div class="" style="position: relative; left: 35px;"></div></div></div></aside><div id="trb_ad_articleBanner_3_1_3_/nation/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227-story.html" class="" data-role="adloader adloader_ad" data-withinviewport-options="bottomOffset=100&topOffset=1000000" data-adloader-position="articleBanner_3"
data-adloader-size="320x50" data-adloader-adtype="sidebarbanner" data-adloader-label="" data-adloader-admapkey="articleBanner_3_1_3_/nation/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227-story.html" data-state="adloader_loaded" style="position: relative; margin: 60px auto 2em 20px; width: 320px; height: 67px; min-height: 67px; float: right; clear: both; z-index: 1;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/4011/trb.latimes/news/natworld/nation_2__container__" style="border: 0pt none;" class=""><iframe id="google_ads_iframe_/4011/trb.latimes/news/natworld/nation_2" name="google_ads_iframe_/4011/trb.latimes/news/natworld/nation_2" width="320" height="50" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" style="border-width: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" class=""></iframe></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">Over the
years, Feinstein has mastered an ability to stay on good terms with both groups. She has a nearly perfect legislative score card from the League of Conservation Voters, balanced by radiant endorsements from the Western Growers Assn.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">The senator's deep connection with agricultural leaders, who traditionally lean Republican, has long had advantages. They dominate politics in key inland regions and have helped her coast to reelection over and again. By contrast, Western Growers has worked aggressively — albeit unsuccessfully — to unseat California's other senator, Democrat Barbara Boxer.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;"
class="">In addition to having relationships on both sides, Feinstein knows the details of water policy like no other elected official in Washington. She has presided over most significant California water negotiations in Congress for years, aggressively boring into the minutiae that other lawmakers eagerly shove off to staff.</div><aside class="" data-content-id="82398635" data-content-size="small" data-content-type="pullquote" data-content-subtype="pullquote" data-role="socialshare_item " data-state=" " style="margin: 10px 40px 40px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 250px; overflow: visible; -webkit-transform: none; font-family: Belizio, Georgia, serif; font-weight: bold; float: left; z-index: 50;"><div class="" style="width: 250px; -webkit-transform: none;"><span class="" data-role="socialshare_sharetext" style="display: block; padding: 24px 0px 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 28px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;">She
[Feinstein] understands water as well as anyone in Congress. I would be surprised if she did not have a major hand in anything that was approved there.</span><span class="" style="display: inline; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">- Al Montna, Yuba City rice farmer</span><div class="" data-role="lightbox_metadata" style=""><a class="" data-role="socialshare_information socialshare_toggleState socialshare_container" data-socialshare-context="pullquote" data-socialshare-url="/nation/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227-story.html" data-socialshare-title="Sen. Dianne Feinstein's role as water referee is complicated by drought" data-socialshare-thumbnail="http://www.trbimg.com/img-549e0212/turbine/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227" data-socialshare-description="She [Feinstein] understands water as well as anyone in Congress. I would be surprised if she did not have a major hand in anything that was approved there."
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calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">"She understands water as well as anyone in Congress," said Al Montna, a Yuba City rice farmer who has helped negotiate California water policy for years. "I would be surprised if she did not have a major hand in anything that was approved there."</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">Lately, though, even with Feinstein's mastery of the details, those relationships have proven tougher to calibrate. As the amount of water available diminishes, so does her ability to make everyone at the negotiating table happy.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">Environmentalists and many House Democrats were
irked this year that Feinstein tried to privately reach a deal with growers without their input. It didn't help that she had declared earlier in the process that environmental groups had never been useful in developing good water policy. Advocates, who produced news releases in which Feinstein had praised them for their involvement in innovative water compromises, professed bafflement at her comments.</div><aside class="" data-role="panelmod_container" data-panelmod-type="comments" style="margin: 20px 0px 20px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; float: right; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); clear: right; position: relative; left: 20px; z-index: 25; width: 360px;"><div class="" style="display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; width: 340px; min-width: 340px; max-width: 340px; position: relative; z-index: 1000; padding-right: 10px; height: 160px;"><a
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color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Please add to the list of those deeply disappointed in Senator Feinstein's "secret" negotiations, all of us who live, work and recreate in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. It does not require "environmental" credentials to see the Senator is favoring large campaign...</div><div class="" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: nowrap; padding-top: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">ROGENE REYNOLDS</div><div class="" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: nowrap; padding-top: 0px;">AT 12:31 PM DECEMBER 28, 2014</div></li></ul></div><span class="" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: uppercase; white-space: nowrap; padding: 6px
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55px;"><div class="" style="position: relative; left: 35px;"></div><a class="" href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227-story.html#" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; display: block; min-height: 56px; position: relative; left: 5px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: right;">60</a><div class="" style="position: relative; left: 35px;"></div></div></div></aside><div id="trb_ad_articleCube_4_2_4_/nation/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227-story.html" class="" data-role="adloader adloader_ad" data-withinviewport-options="bottomOffset=100&topOffset=1000000" data-adloader-position="articleCube_4" data-adloader-size="300x250" data-adloader-adtype="cube" data-adloader-label="" data-adloader-admapkey="articleCube_4_2_4_/nation/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227-story.html" data-state="adloader_loaded"
style="position: relative; margin: 60px auto 2em 20px; width: 300px; min-height: 250px; float: right; clear: both; z-index: 1; height: 267px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/4011/trb.latimes/news/natworld/nation_3__container__" style="border: 0pt none;" class=""><iframe id="google_ads_iframe_/4011/trb.latimes/news/natworld/nation_3" name="google_ads_iframe_/4011/trb.latimes/news/natworld/nation_3" width="300" height="250" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" style="border-width: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" class=""></iframe></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">"Sen. Feinstein legitimately views herself as looking out for the broader interests of California on these issues," said Rep. Jared Huffman of San Rafael, one of several Bay Area Democrats who worked to scuttle the
deal the senator was trying to cobble together. "She just happens to define those broader interests in a way that I think is too weighted in favor of some very powerful folks in the San Joaquin Valley."</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">A growing number of environmental groups and their allies in the House take the view that Congress should simply stay out of the state's water allocation issues. They worry that any increase in pumping leaves the fragile ecosystem of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta vulnerable to collapse and feel they have the support they need in the courts and the Legislature to enforce a solution that would not involve diverting additional water to large Central Valley farms.</div><aside class="" data-content-id="80844353" data-content-size="medium" data-content-type="gallery"
data-content-subtype="photogallery" data-role="socialshare_item gallery carousel gallery_container imgsize_ratiosizecontainer lightbox_container" data-state=" gallery_captionClosed" data-embed-id="80844353" data-load-type="comment" data-load-method="innerHtml" style="margin: 40px 0px 40px 40px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 502.5px; overflow: hidden; -webkit-transform: none; float: right; clear: right; z-index: 50;"><div class="" data-role="carousel_view" style="width: 502.5px; -webkit-transform: none;"><span class="" data-role="lightbox_close" style=""></span><div class="" style="width: 502.5px; -webkit-transform: none;"><span class="" data-role="carousel_transitionadnext carousel_nextpage lightbox_next" style="right: 0px; display: block; width: 40px; ; padding-top: calc(28.125% - 55px); margin-top: calc(40px); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: trb_Icons; text-transform: lowercase; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; cursor: pointer;
z-index: 10021; background-color: transparent; -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;"></span><span class="" data-state="carousel_hidden" data-role="carousel_transitionadprev carousel_prevpage lightbox_prev" style="left: 0px; display: block; width: 40px; ; padding-top: calc(28.125% - 55px); margin-top: calc(40px); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: trb_Icons; text-transform: lowercase; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; cursor: pointer; z-index: 10021; background-color: transparent; -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;"></span><span class="" data-role="embed_info lightbox_info" style=""></span><aside class="" data-content-id="82123001" data-content-size="medium" data-content-type="image" data-content-subtype="photo" data-role="socialshare_item carousel_page " data-state=" carousel_activepage " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: -webkit-transform 0.8s ease; -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.8s ease; -webkit-transform: none;
position: relative; width: 502.5px; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: top; float: left; clear: right; z-index: 50;"><div class="" style="width: 502.5px; -webkit-transform: none;"><div class="" data-role="gallery_item lightbox_metadata" data-pagenumber="1" data-pagecount="78" style="z-index: 50; float: none; position: relative; height: 20px; padding: 10px 30px 10px 10px; vertical-align: top; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(40, 40, 40); width: auto; clear: both;"><span class="" data-role="gallery_toggleCaption" style="display: block; float: left; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 3px; z-index: 10; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 13px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); cursor: pointer;"><br class="" style=""></span><span class="" style="display: block; clear: both; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 20px; font-family: Belizio, Georgia, serif; letter-spacing:
1px;">Focusing on the effects of California's persistent drought</span><div class="" style="padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, serif; clear: both; word-break: break-word;">Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times</div><div class="" style="padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, serif; clear: both; word-break: break-word;">A translucent freshwater bryozoa is illuminated by the rising sun on the receding banks of Folsom Lake, which was 35% of capacity as of Sept. 30. One of the lake's five boat ramps remains in operation and boaters are restricted to 5 mph.</div></div></div></aside><aside class="" data-content-id="82122970" data-content-size="medium" data-content-type="image" data-content-subtype="photo" data-role="socialshare_item carousel_page " data-state=" carousel_nextpage " style="margin:
0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(100%, 0px, 0px); ; width: 502.5px; overflow: hidden; -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; -webkit-transition: all 0.8s ease; transition: all 0.8s ease; opacity: 0; vertical-align: top; float: left; clear: right; z-index: 50;"><div class="" style="width: 502.5px; -webkit-transform: none;"><figure data-role=" imgsize_item" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 282.65625px; position: relative; width: 503.5px; height: 0px; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; float: none;"><img itemprop="image" data-baseurl="http://www.trbimg.com/img-547928e5/turbine/la-me-california-drought-reservoirs-pictures-051" alt="On Assignment: Focusing on the effects of California's persistent drought" class="" title="On Assignment: Focusing on the effects of California's persistent drought" data-content-naturalwidth="2000" data-content-naturalheight="1125" style="display: block; border-width: 0px; visibility:
hidden; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; overflow: hidden; float: none; max-width: 100.69999694824219%; max-height: 100.69999694824219%; ; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; margin: auto !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto !important;"></figure><span class="" data-role="lightbox_open" style="display: block; padding: 0px 5px; font-family: trb_Icons; font-size: 36px; background-color: rgba(102, 102, 102, 0.498039); transition: opacity 0.25s; -webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s; cursor: pointer; position: relative; z-index: 20; float: right; margin-top: -51px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-right: 12px;"></span><div class="" data-role="gallery_item lightbox_metadata" data-pagenumber="2" data-pagecount="78" style="z-index: 50; float: none; position: relative; height: 20px; padding: 10px 30px 10px 10px; vertical-align: top; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(40, 40, 40); width: auto; clear: both;"><span
class="" data-role="gallery_toggleCaption" style="display: block; float: left; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 3px; z-index: 10; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 13px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); cursor: pointer;">CAPTION</span><span class="" style="display: block; clear: both; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 20px; font-family: Belizio, Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: 1px;">On Assignment: Focusing on the effects of California's persistent drought</span><div class="" style="padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, serif; clear: both; word-break: break-word;">Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times</div><div class="" style="padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, serif; clear: both; word-break:
break-word;">The effects of California's ongoing drought are evident at Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet as shells, once under water, lie in the soil of recently exposed banks.</div></div></div></aside><aside class="" data-content-id="82123002" data-content-size="medium" data-content-type="image" data-content-subtype="photo" data-role="socialshare_item carousel_page " data-state=" carousel_nextpage " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(100%, 0px, 0px); ; width: 502.5px; overflow: hidden; -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; -webkit-transition: all 0.8s ease; transition: all 0.8s ease; opacity: 0; vertical-align: top; float: left; clear: right; z-index: 50;"><div class="" style="width: 502.5px; -webkit-transform: none;"><figure data-role=" imgsize_item" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 282.65625px; position: relative; width: 503.5px; height: 0px; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; float:
none;"><img itemprop="image" data-baseurl="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5479292a/turbine/la-me-california-drought-reservoirs-pictures-053" alt="On Assignment: Focusing on the effects of California's persistent drought" class="" title="On Assignment: Focusing on the effects of California's persistent drought" data-content-naturalwidth="2000" data-content-naturalheight="1125" style="display: block; border-width: 0px; visibility: hidden; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; overflow: hidden; float: none; max-width: 100.69999694824219%; max-height: 100.69999694824219%; ; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; margin: auto !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto !important;"></figure><span class="" data-role="lightbox_open" style="display: block; padding: 0px 5px; font-family: trb_Icons; font-size: 36px; background-color: rgba(102, 102, 102, 0.498039); transition: opacity 0.25s; -webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s;
cursor: pointer; position: relative; z-index: 20; float: right; margin-top: -51px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-right: 12px;"></span><div class="" data-role="gallery_item lightbox_metadata" data-pagenumber="3" data-pagecount="78" style="z-index: 50; float: none; position: relative; height: 20px; padding: 10px 30px 10px 10px; vertical-align: top; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(40, 40, 40); width: auto; clear: both;"><span class="" data-role="gallery_toggleCaption" style="display: block; float: left; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 3px; z-index: 10; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 13px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); cursor: pointer;">CAPTION</span><span class="" style="display: block; clear: both; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 20px; font-family: Belizio, Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: 1px;">On Assignment: Focusing on the effects of California's
persistent drought</span><div class="" style="padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, serif; clear: both; word-break: break-word;">Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times</div><div class="" style="padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, serif; clear: both; word-break: break-word;">Severe drought conditions reveal more than 600 empty docks sitting on dry, cracked dirt at Folsom Lake Marina, which is one of the largest inland marinas in California.</div></div></div></aside><aside class="" data-content-id="82122969" data-content-size="medium" data-content-type="image" data-content-subtype="photo" data-role="socialshare_item carousel_page " data-state=" carousel_nextpage " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(100%, 0px, 0px); ; width: 502.5px; overflow: hidden;
-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; -webkit-transition: all 0.8s ease; transition: all 0.8s ease; opacity: 0; vertical-align: top; float: left; clear: right; z-index: 50;"><div class="" style="width: 502.5px; -webkit-transform: none;"><figure data-role=" imgsize_item" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 282.65625px; position: relative; width: 503.5px; height: 0px; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; float: none;"><img itemprop="image" data-baseurl="http://www.trbimg.com/img-547928e4/turbine/la-me-california-drought-reservoirs-pictures-052" alt="On Assignment: Focusing on the effects of California's persistent drought" class="" title="On Assignment: Focusing on the effects of California's persistent drought" data-content-naturalwidth="2000" data-content-naturalheight="1125" style="display: block; border-width: 0px; visibility: hidden; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; overflow: hidden; float: none;
max-width: 100.69999694824219%; max-height: 100.69999694824219%; ; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; margin: auto !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto !important;"></figure><span class="" data-role="lightbox_open" style="display: block; padding: 0px 5px; font-family: trb_Icons; font-size: 36px; background-color: rgba(102, 102, 102, 0.498039); transition: opacity 0.25s; -webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s; cursor: pointer; position: relative; z-index: 20; float: right; margin-top: -51px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-right: 12px;"></span><div class="" data-role="gallery_item lightbox_metadata" data-pagenumber="4" data-pagecount="78" style="z-index: 50; float: none; position: relative; height: 20px; padding: 10px 30px 10px 10px; vertical-align: top; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(40, 40, 40); width: auto; clear: both;"><span class="" data-role="gallery_toggleCaption" style="display: block; float: left; padding-bottom: 15px;
padding-top: 3px; z-index: 10; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 13px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); cursor: pointer;">CAPTION</span><span class="" style="display: block; clear: both; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 20px; font-family: Belizio, Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: 1px;">On Assignment: Focusing on the effects of California's persistent drought</span><div class="" style="padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, serif; clear: both; word-break: break-word;">Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times</div><div class="" style="padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, serif; clear: both; word-break: break-word;">Patterns are created and reflected from water receding on the bed of Folsom Lake. As the state ends the
fourth-driest water year on record with no guarantee of significant rain and snow this winter, Californians face the prospect of stricter rationing and meager irrigation deliveries.</div></div></div></aside><aside class="" data-content-id="82122971" data-content-size="medium" data-content-type="image" data-content-subtype="photo" data-role="socialshare_item carousel_page " data-state=" carousel_nextpage " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transform: translate3d(100%, 0px, 0px); ; width: 502.5px; overflow: hidden; -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; -webkit-transition: all 0.8s ease; transition: all 0.8s ease; opacity: 0; vertical-align: top; float: left; clear: right; z-index: 50;"><div class="" style="width: 502.5px; -webkit-transform: none;"><figure data-role=" imgsize_item" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 282.65625px; position: relative; width: 503.5px; height: 0px; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; float:
none;"><img itemprop="image" data-baseurl="http://www.trbimg.com/img-547928e6/turbine/la-me-california-drought-reservoirs-pictures-050" alt="On Assignment: Focusing on the effects of California's persistent drought" class="" title="On Assignment: Focusing on the effects of California's persistent drought" data-content-naturalwidth="2000" data-content-naturalheight="1125" style="display: block; border-width: 0px; visibility: hidden; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; overflow: hidden; float: none; max-width: 100.69999694824219%; max-height: 100.69999694824219%; ; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; margin: auto !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto !important;"></figure><span class="" data-role="lightbox_open" style="display: block; padding: 0px 5px; font-family: trb_Icons; font-size: 36px; background-color: rgba(102, 102, 102, 0.498039); transition: opacity 0.25s; -webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s;
cursor: pointer; position: relative; z-index: 20; float: right; margin-top: -51px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-right: 12px;"></span><div class="" data-role="gallery_item lightbox_metadata" data-pagenumber="5" data-pagecount="78" style="z-index: 50; float: none; position: relative; height: 20px; padding: 10px 30px 10px 10px; vertical-align: top; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(40, 40, 40); width: auto; clear: both;"><span class="" data-role="gallery_toggleCaption" style="display: block; float: left; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 3px; z-index: 10; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 13px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); cursor: pointer;">CAPTION</span><span class="" style="display: block; clear: both; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 20px; font-family: Belizio, Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: 1px;">On Assignment: Focusing on the effects of California's
persistent drought</span><div class="" style="padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, serif; clear: both; word-break: break-word;">Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times</div><div class="" style="padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, serif; clear: both; word-break: break-word;">Extremely low levels of water flowing through meandering streams of the east fork of the San Gabriel River in the Angeles National Forest show the effects of the prolonged drought. The water flows into the San Gabriel Dam and the Morris Dam, further downstream.</div></div></div></aside></div></div></aside><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">That resistance to a federal solution led to
Feinstein's cutting the environmental groups out of her negotiations. But the groups proved a more troublesome foil than anticipated, using social media and the 24-hour news cycle to ambush the senator as she tried to bring her negotiations with growers to a close.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">"Things played out very differently this year than they had in the past," said Doug Obegi, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">The last time Feinstein insisted on diverting more water to growers over the objections of environmentalists, "she locked everyone in the room, which she is famous for, and we were
successful at convincing her we could reach a compromise," he said. "We never got that call this year."</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">Tension with environmentalists is not new for Feinstein. The latest dispute has the groups dusting off their list of grievances. It is long.</div><div id="trb_ad_pageBottomCube_3_5_/nation/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227-story.html" class="" data-role="adloader adloader_ad" data-withinviewport-options="bottomOffset=100&topOffset=1000000" data-adloader-position="pageBottomCube" data-adloader-size="300x250" data-adloader-adtype="cube" data-adloader-label="" data-adloader-admapkey="pageBottomCube_3_5_/nation/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227-story.html" data-state="adloader_loaded" style="position: relative; margin: 40px auto 2em 20px; width: 300px; min-height: 250px;
clear: both; float: right; z-index: 1; height: 267px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/4011/trb.latimes/news/natworld/nation_4__container__" style="border: 0pt none;" class=""><iframe id="google_ads_iframe_/4011/trb.latimes/news/natworld/nation_4" name="google_ads_iframe_/4011/trb.latimes/news/natworld/nation_4" width="300" height="250" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" style="border-width: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" class=""></iframe></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">High on the list is the 2009 crusade Feinstein launched on behalf of Stewart Resnick, a billionaire from Beverly Hills and friend of Feinstein who presides over a vast agricultural empire. Resnick complained to Feinstein in a letter that restrictions on pumping water to Central Valley farms were based on
"sloppy science." Feinstein took up his cause, demanding that the Obama administration launch a new study.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">Some $750,000 was spent studying the issue anew. Researchers concluded, again, that the restrictions were warranted. Other fights involved a water-storage plan on the Merced River and an oyster farm that Feinstein defended despite its being within part of the Point Reyes National Seashore that the Obama administration wants to designate a national wilderness.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px); font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;" class="">Even after Feinstein agreed to stop negotiating water deals in secret this year, environmental groups tracked her every move
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