Hello ladies, hello gentlemen, this is the Victor Davis Hanson show. I'm Jack Fowler, the host, and we are recording on Sunday the 24th of July. This particular episode should be up on the worldwide webs on Thursday.

The 28th, Victor Davis Hanson is the star of the show. That's why it's called the Victor Davis Hanson show. And he is the Martin and Eli Anderson senior fellow in history at the Hoover institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in history at Hillsdale College.

A Victor is a bestselling author, farmer, class, military historian, essayist twice a week, he writes essays for American greatness, you check him out there, writes a lot of original content for Victor Hanson.com his website, and we'll talk about that a little later.

Some of that original content, though, will be the subject matter for today's program. And one of those topics is water. And we're going to get to that right after these important messages.

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We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson show Victor. My friend. Hope you're doing well speaking of wells. Well, as is where we're well is our where water comes from.

As we've talked about before on this podcast, the issues facing California citizens, not only California citizens now with wet people at out west. Now here, here in the east, you turn on your faucet.

Water comes out. Nobody thinks of water as a commodity. Nobody thinks of it as an issue. They should spend a little time.

So, just a little bit of the content to divide and learn how precious water is, how political it is, and how it is a tool being used by progressives to punish people.

So Victor, you've written a sarcastic. I'm. Yes, I was sarcastic.

I was sarcastic article. Yes, this is sarcastic. But I do want to recommend before I mention that that at the California policy center, which are mentioned before in past Ed ring who has done like a 16 parts series on California and water.

Check that out. So Victor, you've written yeah a sarcastic piece. But let me just read to very quickly here. You've about, I don't know, six to 10 maybe 10 10 aspects of this water water and not a drop anywhere.

Here's number three in times of drought. Rivers must this is from the leftist mindset. Rivers must run to the sea to preserve 19th century riparian landscapes and aquatic life and to replenish oxygen in the fragile waters of the Bay and surrounding delta to save small fish.

By the way, they're not native post fish. The treated nitrogen rich of flu effluence of dozens of Bay area liberal communities into the fragile Bay have little to do with its declining oxygenation. That's number three.

And before sarcastic agriculture is doomed in the West and quite privately, it should be given its reliance on unnatural water transfers, especially on California's West side.

Here, you're under going a serious drought, even when you weren't having a drought, a short period there was an opportunity to help address this issue. Nobody did nothing, as we say in the Bronx.

Victor, tell us about why you wrote this piece.

Well, you know, we have this drought. I try to measure it both by data of annual rainfall and snowpack. It's in its second year, but it's part of a five year. We was interrupted by a very wet year, which is tragic because we had three years ago, just enormous amounts of snow and rain, but we were not ready or we were not willing to capture that water bounty in reservoirs and underground stories.

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