(from the SF Chronicle- click to go to source)No one's hanging the blame on any particular polluter or consumer of water, but bad conditions are on the brink of destroying the $3 billion salmon fishery in California, Oregon, and Washington. The system of water distribution is almost as tangled and screwed up as the state's system of government, and it's only recently that the threats to the fishery have received due attention. The chief response so far has been to ensure that enough water runs through the systems of streams that go
hundreds or even thousands of miles inland to the spawning places, and while that sounds like a common sense solution it's anything but common sense to the people who have been using that water to farm. It looks like the real culprit is climate change, so... how should we respond? No simple solution in sight, unfortunately.
