The good liberals of San Francisco love to advertise their green virtue, such as their recent ban on plastic straws. But that doesn’t seem to be protecting them from the same predicament long faced by farmers in California’s Central Valley: water shortages due to the decisions of Sacramento regulators.
State overlords have long restricted water deliveries to farmers south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, ostensibly to protect salmon and smelt. But despite the hundreds of billions of gallons every year flushed out…