There was not nearly enough room or time to write about everything that was said in Monday's congressional hearing on the "man-made drought." It's too complex.

The Fresno hearing was a call to revise the management of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to make more water available for west Valley farming.

The main target was pumping restrictions at the delta to protect endangered and threatened fish. Salmon and delta smelt populations have been dramatically dwindling, but the pumps have been wrongly held responsible for doing most of the damage, officials said.

Here are a few other things I heard that are worth mentioning:

-- When Westlands Water District was told it would get only 10% of its federal allotment in 2009, the wildlife refuges got 100%. That's hard for farmers to fathom, water officials said.

-- Mary Nejedly Piepho, Contra Costa County supervisor, said the top solution should be additional water storage south of the delta. That means reservoirs and ground-water banks. There's no where to put all the water that's available right now.

-- Dayatra Latin of the Community Food Bank in Fresno told a heart-rending drought story about a farmworker woman who stood in a line on a hot day with a sick infant, waiting for food. It would take hours to get food, but she had to wait.

"If I go home, we will not eat tonight," she told Latin. "And you won't be back for two weeks."