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John Duarte: “It's actually causes infrastructure problems with the…”

Featuring: John Duarte, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 13

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Duarte Slams Endangered Species Act

Published | Video Starts at 01:20

We're flushing 70 to 90 million acre feet of water a year out into the ocean from our water projects in California. We've devastated our groundwater. It's fallen dramatically. It's actually causes infrastructure problems with the subsidence related devastated rural communities, farm families. It's devastated farm workers and again, provided no benefits. Are you administrator, Coit, or director Williams? Are you accountable to deliver results? (01:20–01:28)

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Asserts that falling groundwater levels cause infrastructure problems and devastate rural communities and farm families.

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