Smelt. It's dead. It's been dead for a few years. Find me one, if you can, to save the salmon. Their numbers are low. They're very low. 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. (01:09–01:18)
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Asserts that California water projects flush 70 to 90 million acre feet of water into the ocean annually.
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