A water agency official attributes California’s current water shortage to state laws that limit pumping water for urban and agricultural use, and a lack of water infrastructure.
Darcy Burke, the board president of Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, said she is concerned about how water resources are being distributed between human and environmental needs.
“A lot of the drought we’re in right now is man-made,” Burke said on EpochTV’s “California Insider” program. “It’s not that we don’t have enough water. We’re not managing the water we have well.”
She said that each year a vast amount of water is wasted by being released into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta because state environmental policy says it is necessary to cool the ocean to rebound some endangered fish species, like the Delta smelt….