Opinion: Water everywhere

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Farmers are fallowing millions of acres, development of wastewater use is expanding, communities everywhere are conserving, and we are forced to overuse our groundwater aquifers, a solution that will come back to bite us very soon. But we have not investigated the root of the problem. We need more surface water storage if we are to meet the unnatural release and ever-increasing use of our stored water supply for fish flows directed to the ocean for unproven and overstated expected results.