"But back to last year, when you were here, I asked you this basically same question and you attributed it to drought and a lack of water."
"It is funny how it never reaches those goals and now they are saying maybe 5,000 but I have a funny feeling that when we actually get the final report of the actual pumping, it is never going to meet ..."
"If we invest in desalinization we then go out in to the ocean, grab that water and spend a bunch of money to take salt out of it when we should have just taken that opportunity and prevented that wate..."
"So in--back to those projects and what was mentioned about the water plan, we are at very low levels in a lot of those reservoirs."
"Can you please get me that number?"
"I would love to see that information."
"CVPIA sets an ambitious goal to at least double the populations... Is it a good idea for us to spend taxpayer resources to protect or add to the population of the striped bass?"
"Do you have a number to qualify that big impact? In the studies that I have seen, like I said earlier, about 95 percent of the smelt are consumed by these species."
"I feel like I need to invite everybody out to my part of the country in California."
"What kind of analysis did Reclamation do, use to determine that the selected activities would meet the Congressional directive?"
"For the Central Valley Project, out of that $100 million in drought funding, we allocated $37.9 million to that."
"Is that buying water?"