Avenal protest 3094a

These protest signs are seen regularly across the Central Valley. They are largely in response to actions by the EPA that have reduced the flow of water to the area.

Given that the sentiment is often part of an understandable "keep government off our backs" perspective, I often wonder how that perspective is reconciled with the fact that the Central Valley would be non-farmable if it weren't for the original government intervention that created the California aqueduct to bring water hundreds of miles from the Sierra to these points.

Update 10/22/2014: The LA Times printed an article today describing the Westlands Water District that covers this area including the inherent problems with providing water to this side of the valley, and the use of crops that demand high levels of water:
www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-westlands-20141021-story.html#page=1