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Environmentalist wackos strike again

Something similar has been happening here in the West, except it concerns drinking water. A liberal court allowed drinking water that the City of Albuquerque bought and channeled to the Rio Grande River from the other side of the Continental Divide to be used to support some little fish called the Silvery Minnow. The Rio Grande is not all that grand, and you can walk across it in many places.

This was fought in court, because if the PURCHASED water was cut off, then the habitat would also be destroyed because of the western drought. So, the court felt that it was OK for ABQ to pay for and not use water so that the minnow could survive a natural cycle of drought.

Some action was taken by the US Congress to correct this problem. The final solution seems to be somewhat of a compromise that seems OK on its surface. They will create habitat upstream of ABQ by creating a very shallow wide area in the river that the minnows can use. From what I can tell, it will be too shallow for any boat. But the water will continue to flow downstream to serve the city water supply. The only loss is from more evaporation in the shallow stream area.

I grew up in Missouri and I know that river. Certainly a solution could be to have shallow plains for the sturgeon and still keep a narrower channel for barge traffic. I may be getting cynical, but I think that this is often about control of resources (political power) and has little to do with endangered species as the law was intended.

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Rattlesnakes are endangered in my yard, but for a totally different reason. They are just not a very durable animal.

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