The San Joaquin River Project Summary

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The San Joaquin River Project is to recreate the San Joaquin River that was dried up after dams were built in 1942.Weintraub and McEwen present very powerful facts and opinions to get the reader's attention and convince them to a side and what to believe in .Weintraub believes that the San Joaquin River project will work and it's worth the 400 million dollars and Weintraub also states that “ The project will have a positive impact on the peoples emotions”.This is where I disagree with Weintraub I don't think it's worth the money.That money can go in so many other things and this will mess up many farmers lives so I disagree with Weintraub.The major claim of the Mc Ewens article is to inform us that the river plan is going to be a useless project

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