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[Ediacara]

Favor salmon over farmers, panel says
Study looked at drought withdrawals from Columbia River

By ROBERT McCLURE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Farmers should not be given permission to withdraw more water from the Columbia River in the hot summer months unless the flow can be cut off during droughts, because salmon already are under assault by water that is too warm.

That was the conclusion of a long-awaited National Academy of Sciences study released yesterday to the praise of environmentalists and the scorn of farmers.

Instead, conservation and purchases from those who hold long-standing water rights should help lessen the effects of droughts on farmers, the panel of the congressionally chartered academy said.

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[EstimatedProphet]

1. Thank god!

I hope this information gets acted upon...
I'm a fishery biologist, and I know that if we don't do something about water use in the west we are going to lose fish strains The pacific salmon strains simply can't stand high temperature water. Dam construction in the west has turned a lot of the rivers into a series of pools, and the fish can't cope with it.

[Bandit]

2. Won't be much longer and the farmers will be buying their water from the

Bush* Cabal. Carlyle, Enron, Halliburton are all exploring obtaining complete water rights in America.