John Duarte actually said...

"Somebody from far away outside our base and outside our community, outside our state, outside our country could play the water market through political or environmental manipulations."

"I think that commodities are commodities. They move around the globe and they fill voids and shortages through a free market system that you folks help facilitate. But water is not a commodity."

"We have sacrificed a lot for the Delta smelt and the salmon through single species management schemes that I hope have delivered tremendous results for all the species or the salmon, the smelt, but ma..."

"Since the 1990s and the biological opinions and the lawsuits that ensued afterwards, and the removal of water from area to save the Delta smelt, the salmon from the Delta, we have depleted groundwater..."