U.S. facing crop disaster, joblessness because of Delta Smelt  

That is such a sensible idea that I doubt it will ever even be considered!

There will always be water, theoretically. It is used, evaporates and re-condenses to fall as rain and renew the creeks and rivers and ocean. It's never really gone, it is just stored in the clouds, as snow and precipitation and seeps down into the aquifers.

I'm wondering why they can't build another irrigation system or breed the Delta Smelt in waters safer for its survival.

That's where you wrong.

First... two third of the glaciers around the world have melted due to the green house effect and a rise of temperature. It only needs to get one degree above zero for the thing to start melting. Those glaciers were the water supply for the river system in summer.

Second... as the climat change... it does not rain in the same places that it used to rain. If most of the rain start falling over the ocean instead of on the land... no more water.

Australia is having a water shortage since 2000. We now have to build desalination plants in every major cities. Our rivers are dying because the farmers have been pumping them dry. Last year the government told us that we might need to forget about agriculture and give up the game.

Same story in Europe. They have big water shortage in summer. All this has happened in the last 10 years. We are short of water. No two ways about it. Water is about to become more expensive than gazoline.

It's not really a water shortage as such, it's a drought - a natural and cyclical occurrence. Other places are getting more rain than ever. Our northern state of North Dakota is flooded, has been flooded for weeks and is getting more rain. When it doesn't rain in one place, it will rain someplace else.

People may have done damage to the planet, but so have animals, nature and the sun. We have as much right to this planet as they do. I cannot believe the coldness of your heart to say that it would be a good thing for people to die. Do you include yourself and people you care about in that? I hope so.

The fish are so small, about an inch long, that any suction will probably affect them. I have wondered why they can't relocate the fish or start a breeding farm or something. Fish take priority over humans, I guess, and I'm usually okay with that if it's commercial or residential development of houses and other buildings. But this is the food supply and I don't understand their reasoning.

Still shouldn't be hard. You'd just need a "REALLY" wide mouth to distribute the suction over a wider area & a very fine filter on the end of it.

I agree and disagree with you. I don't like sacrificing any living creature but we're talking about feeding millions of people.

With everything we have accomplished so far, you would think that they could figure out a system to keep the smelt safe.