article_snippet.sent: With the drought stretching into It fourth year, California's Democratic Governor Jerry Brown last week signed an executive order limiting water consumption. 
article_snippet.sent: Excluded from the new restrictions, however, was the agricultural industry, which is responsible for 80 percent of the state's water usage.
article_snippet.sent: Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill at the end of last year allowing water to be redistributed from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to drought-affected areas of the state, but the legislation died in the then-Democratically-controlled Senate.
article_snippet.sent: the legislation was opposed by environmental groups, who said the water transportation system would disrupt the habitat of certain fish species, and the U.S. House of Representatives had said the president would veto a bill if a bill passed.
article_snippet.sent: For more than 100 years, environmentalists have failed to stop the damming of nearly every significant river in California.
article_snippet.sent: And yet all of the hundreds of dams out there have done nothing to produce rain or snow pack over the last four years,' Kathryn Phillips, director of the California chapter of the national organization, said, according to the Huffington Post. '
article_snippet.sent: We simply don't have rain or snow pack and are suffering the worst California drought since water agencies and weather trackers started keeping records.'