Water War Counterattack

The federal government could settle the issue easily -- federal officials could manage the Central Valley Project to send more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta so Westlands would have its full federal allotment of irrigation water. Since the early 1990s, federal environmental regulation has forced more Northern California river water flowing out of the Delta into the ocean so dying fisheries could rebound. As a result, Westlands' 1.15 million acre-foot federal allotment has been almost cut in half in many years.