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"A decision to take summer water from local farmers and dump it out of these reservoirs shows a complete lack of understanding of how the system works and sets a very dangerous precedent. This decision was clearly made by someone with no understanding of the system or the impacts that come from knee-jerk political actions."; -Tulare County's boots-on-the-
ground water manager Dan Vink
--whose job it is to know how much
water is in the reservoir, how much
rainfall it takes to replenish it, yearly
rainfall averages, how much water
the surrounding land needs each year,
make the hard if/when decisions
about disbursements.