Sean Hannity exposes the man-made drought in California

FROM THE GREAT AMERICAN BLOG:

Let me be honest: When I get hungry, I walk into the kitchen, wash an apple, slice it and slap some peanut butter on it. Or sometimes I grab a can of almonds, pour a few in my hand and enjoy a little healthy snack. But, never do I think about where the foods are grown or how much work went into growing them.

Recently that changed when Chase ("Hannity" producer) and I flew out to Fresno, California. We spent days visiting farms where nearly 300 crops (fruits, veggies and most nuts) are produced. It was quite a site. We flew above miles and miles of gorgeous, almond orchards and talked with farmers about different issues affecting our foods.

The main concern and the reason for our research is this: Nearly 40,000 farmers in the Central Valley are unemployed because a judge ordered to turn off the irrigation system in order to save a small fish, which is endangered.

The minnow is called the Delta Smelt and it lives in the water, which is pumped into the San Joaquin Valley. Environmentalists complained and a judge ordered the pumps be turned off. But, no water means no crops and no jobs.

In turn, farmers are making tough decisions. They are losing their farms (in some circumstances third generation farms) and forced to fire the workers. Food banks can't keep shelves stocked because of all the needy families and eventually, farmers say, you and I will feel the effects. We will be forced to eat fruits, veggies and nuts from other countries (with few regulations, pesticides, etc).

Most farmers are screaming "fish over family" and they are stressed, frustrated and fearful. But, environmentalists say the fish needs to be protected and without it the entire ecosystem is in danger. They want the fish to stay in its natural surroundings, not moved to another pond (aka not supposed to be there).

It's a fascinating story and one that will take a long time to work out. But, no doubt, something has to be done. Watch the story tonight on "Hannity" at 9 PM EST. I'll be on set with Sean discussing the issue. Thanks for watching!

-Ainsley Earhardt, FOX NEWS

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• Sean Hannity
• Devin Nunes
• Congressman Nunes
• California drought
• man-made drought
• Delta
• Delta smelt
• california delta
• water
• drought
• water crisis
• nrdc
• radical enviros
• environmentalists
• san joaquin valley
• Tulare
• Fresno
• westlands

[dtvgmedia]

Do you think the Obama administration and congress want to keep these people dependent on the government? Every thing they do grows dependents on government.

Wouldn't a large enough stainless steel mesh prevent the fish from being caught in the pumps? The decades these pumps have been running are an initiator that they could continue to run while this mesh is put in place with out any appreciable change to the fish population.

Where are the common sense solutions.

[2ldr]

Issues like this drive me nuts.Honestly how flipping stupid have people become ?

Why is this even an issue ?Such an easy fix.Build a fence line 8 or so feet away from the suction lines.Use a heavy stanless mesh grade 304 or better and the maintanance would be next to nothing.the fish live people drink and farmers get the water they need and evryone keeps their jobs.

[dtvgmedia]

@Loustrikesagain

What if the mesh were 10 sq meters and far enough from say a .5 sq meter pipe opening. The flow rate per sq meter at the mesh would be just a fraction of that of the pipe entrance.

[LOUDNESSrocks]

FUCK the delta smelt!!! They are a TRASH-FISH!! Maybe we should just kill them ALL OFF..wipe the worthless fish out so they will turn the fucking pumps back on!! our survival and well-being is 1,000 times more important then weeds, rats, and useless little fish, that have absolutely NO food value!!

[handydude6]

@minuteman2012 She LIED. The pump station is 90 miles upstream. So if they allow the water to go out it freshens the water that the ocean salt water is trying to take over. 90 percent of the water evaporates in open canals, before it reaches the farms in the south. So they are stealing a vast amount of water, then the farmers use the wrong techniques when the water is released onto the farms. Wasting more water. Those were not farms 50 years ago. They were hot dry deserts

[handydude6]

@handydude6 Before the canals were built; the entire bay, and the entire delta were fresh water. Now they are salty and they totally screwed up. The US built water desalination plants for Israel, at no cost to them. Why not do the same for billionaire S. California land barons?

[handydude6]

As a California resident all my life. The background is a water war between North and South California. The South steals the water, destroying the delta, making it too salty for local growers. The salt comes from the ocean. and goes up 200 miles into the delta, because the water is being diverted. While the South diverts the water before it can get ocean water in it, and pumps it south in open canals. Where 90 percent of it evaporates and becomes salty before it reaches sandy desert land

[threadysparrow]

if you support sean hannity or the republicans then you are blind

[themanningsjdsjjj]

If everyone breaks an unjust law, it will get changed.

Get on the bus like Rosa did.

It used to be legal to destroy the redwood forest...

[alexcoaym]

its no suprise that the area is died up. it used to be a lake 100 years ago.

Look up Tulare Lake on wikipedia, it got drained first. there used to be salmon in Bakersfield, grizzly too.. that cant be sustainable.

[minuteman2012]

she says at 4:14 they pump the water into the ocean.....wtf? you people in ca need to grow a pair and take that facility back by force!

[Loustrikesagain]

@dtvgmedia There's common sense, then there's science. I'm no Einstein, but the textbooks seem to imply that the truth often times lines up better with the scientific method than with common sense. This seems like a job for scientists. Sounds like a sensible idea to me, though even with mesh, strong enough pumps might get the fish stuck on the mesh, killing them anyway. Maybe I'm just being too optimistic about the competence of our environmentalists in assuming they've thought this over.