After flushing a trillion gallons into the Pacific, California finally gets rain by Kevin Whiteman

After flushing a trillion gallons into the Pacific, California finally gets rain by Kevin Whiteman: "While Mother Nature has been particularly cruel to the state, more than a few Californios blame the Feds for making an already bad situation worse.
After environmental activists eventually convinced a federal judge almost six years ago to save the Snail Darter fish from the edge of extinction, fresh water designated for the agricultural powerhouse that is California’s Central Valley would have to be purged from the state’s series of reservoirs, aqueducts, storage facilities and canals, only to be essentially flushed into the Pacific Ocean. 
The Snail Darter is normally cut up into hook-sized pieces by locals as bait.
As cited by the HotAir.com news portal on Feb. 15, 2014, the Eureka State’s planners constructed a water system over a half century ago that would ensure a ready supply of runoff …"