Carly Fiorina blames liberal environmentalists for Calif. water crisis

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Carly Fiorina blames liberal environmentalists for Calif. water crisis
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times - Monday, April 6, 2015

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and potential Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is blaming California's water crisis on "liberal environmentalists" who are "willing to sacrifice other people's lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology."

"With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided," Ms. Fiorina said in an interview Monday on Glenn Beck's radio show, The Blaze reported. "Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California's population has doubled."

Ms. Fiorina said that as a result, 70 percent of California's rainfall "washes out to sea" every year, The Blaze reported.

"California is a classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people's lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy," Ms. Fiorina said.

"Government has grown so huge, so powerful, so costly, so complex, it is literally crushing the life out of this country," she argued. "It is crushing small and family-owned businesses, which are the economic engine of our nation. It is crushing possibilities out of people's lives by entangling them in a web of dependence from which they cannot escape. The weight, the cost and the power of government are literally crushing the potential of the nation.

"We must, absolutely must, get government under control, which means reducing its size and its power and its complexity in really fundamental ways," Ms. Fiorina said, The Blaze reported. "And that is why I am seriously considering running for president, and will make a final decision over the next month or so. I have come to the point of view that too many politicians have been captured in this system for too long, and they no longer see what needs to be done."

California Gov. Jerry Brown announced a crackdown last week on residents and businesses in an effort to reduce overall water usage by 25 percent over the next nine months. The order doesn't include the agriculture industry, which accounts for roughly 80 percent of all human water use, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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Combine the elements of agriculture, water, environment and it should be no surprise.

Meanwhile in north San Diego County, the largest desalinization plant in the Western Hemisphere is almost completed.

A copy of that plant is hoping for final approval soon, and is literally down the street from my home (in coastal Orange County).

Environmentalists say no to every aspect of desal plants, to aqueducts, to damns, to reservoirs, etc.

Years ago, a north to south water conveyance system was considered, but blocked by environmentalists.

We have some restored coastal wetlands. The battles over years, about how to do that, were instructive. Environmentalists are all about the worst case scenarios, and will lie if needed. (see manmade climate change statistics)

The entire West is an vast semi-arid environment, and water management is challenging.