surfsteve wrote:While this wouldn't totally solve the problem, it would be a tremendous help.
Trump Implies He Will Use An Executive Order To End The California Drought
Efforts to protect the endangered fish from further decline have focused on limiting or modifying the large-scale pumping activities of state and federal water projects at the southern end of the estuary thereby limiting water available to farming. However, these efforts have not prevented the species from becoming functionally extinct in the wild.
A survey in April 2015 found only one individual delta smelt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_smelt