Build our dams
Unlike the headline on your article in Sunday’s Fresno Bee, almond farmers are not the villains in our drought — politicians and extreme environmentalists are.
I suggest you write an article urging Gov. Jerry Brown to build the dams he promised the people, and for which the people voted funds in our last election.
Temperance Flat Dam will be built behind the existing Friant Dam and the other dam built on top of the existing Shasta Dam. Both proposals will have little or no impact on the environment because they will be built to support existing structures.
The last two May storms could have served a larger purpose if we had more dams to store the runoff, rather than see the precious water simply go down the drain.
Our country has been systematically depriving itself of its resources for the past 60 years. The day of reckoning has come.
Chuck DeFina, Madera
This story was originally published May 28, 2015 at 9:26 AM with the headline "Build our dams."