C-WIN Guest Blog by Dan Bacher

The "Astroturf" campaign by corporate agribusiness to build a peripheral canal and more dams to increase Delta water exports has relentlessly promoted the myth that crops grown on drainage-impaired land on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley "feed the nation" or "feed the world."

Solano County's Administrative Center, Fairfield, California.

Source: Michael O'Callahan.

The State Water Resources Control Board held a special "organizational issues" meeting on December 8, 2009, at the 6th floor conference room of the Solano County Administrative Center in Fairfield's ultra-modern Solano County Administrative Center.

The most alarming thing I learned at the meeting was that the decline of the Delta's open water fish populations continues. Pelagic ("open water") Organism Decline (POD) species abundance indices for the first two months of the Fall midwater trawl (FMWT) are complete and found that abundance indices for Delta smelt, American shad, and striped bass are the lowest in history. The index for longfin smelt is the third lowest in history.

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