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[Mortblanc]

Hey CH, do you remember about 10 years ago when they shut the entire water supply to the Imperial Valley in California off due to fear of loss of an endangered fish in the Colorado River?

If you in the UK can imagine, we have a section of desert in California called the Imperial Valley. About 100 years ago they began diverting water from the Colorado River for about 100 miles to water this place so they could farm it. Eventually the area was responsible for about 1/4 of the food production of the entire US.

Actually that is a deceptive term since most of the food produced was sold locally since 1/3 of the US population is on the west coast! The area does not feed much of the remainder of the nation except for exotic foods not native to the regions; almonds, avocados, artichokes and citrus fruits.

The water to support these farms was transferred through a series of aqueducts 15-20 feet in diameter and allocated by the hour for irrigation. Without the water the area would revert to desert within weeks. Not months or years but weeks.

In other words, the food supply of the entire US west coast is dependent on artificially sustained production in a landscape totally unsuited for the use it is providing.

The food supply to 60 million people was not even considered a factor by the environmentalists pushing for the protection of the guppies in the Colorado River, who could shift position within their habitat at will and avoid the diversion pipes, and had done so for 100 years.