It's all about money and the "greater" good. Keeping the users of our fish and wildlife resources separated and fighting each other allows the other side to proceed.

Until somebody, and probably someplace like CA or the Mississippi flood plain, takes the bull by the horns and actually removes structures in the flood plain and pulls levees back to the 500 or 1,000 year plain, protecting investment will always win.

The San Francisco Bay area is close to huge flooding disaster as they have a bay full of houses, and an airport or two, just waiting for the Greenland icecap to melt followed by a huge rain on snow event in the Sierra like they had in the early 1860's when the water going out the Golden Gate was 20' higher than high tide. Chew on that one...