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The last substantial storm, “Pineapple Express” that affected California was in mid-December of 2014(Fritz, 2014). Nobody knew whether the snowpack or the rainfall would proceed similarly to end the record three year natural, yet “man-made” drought. Costal elites of California invested of all their money and time to build dams, repositories, and trenches in the 1970s but the situation took a complete turn in the last four years. During the first year of the drought, fights about water were basically restricted to agriculturists and environmentalists. The environmentalists wanted all the water to be diverted to Delta restoration while the agriculturists wanted to divert water to the 500,000 acres of the farmlands. The politicians claimed that the climate change, global warming and agricultural water usage, not their own political regulations, had brought the current drought emergency on the Golden State of California. The main question looming is: Should people show some dominance over nature or nature should take dominance over humans?
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The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance also opposed the proposition by issuing the opposition statement with 14 reason against the proposition. According to the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, it would undermine the public doctrine trust by taxing water which is a public trust and should be free to use just like the air we breathe. It also undermines the doctrine of beneficiary pays by making the citizens pay instead of the beneficiary of the water projects. As taxpayers, citizens would have to pay $360 million in taxes per year up to 40 years to pay off the bond. It is economically irresponsible because the state of California is already in $777 billion debt and this would increase it. This $7.545 billion bond was passed on August 13, 2014 (“Proposition 1”,

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