A spokeswoman for Fiorina told Daily Mail Online, 'It is clear that the radical environmental lobby would prefer to ignore the facts on this one'

Another group said hundreds of dams in California haven't helped with the drought - 'that's because you can't store what's not there'

One of the so-called liberal environmental groups Fiorina blamed later knocked her

Former Hewlett Packard head Carly Fiorina is attributing the years-long drought in California to 'liberal environmentalists,' whom she says brought on the state's water shortage with their policies.

'It is a man-made disaster,' she told Glenn Beck during a Monday radio interview. 'With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided.'

The 'tragedy' of California, Fiorina, a maybe presidential candidate, said, is it 'has suffered from droughts for millennia,' and still 'liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California’s population has doubled.'

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Former Hewlett Packard head and maybe Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is attributing the years-long drought in California to 'liberal environmentalists,' whom she says brought on the state's water shortage with their policies.

'California is a classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It’s a tragedy,' Fiorina, a one-time California Senate candidate, told Beck, on Blaze Radio station.

With the drought stretching into its fourth year, California's Democratic Governor Jerry Brown last week signed an executive order limiting water consumption. Excluded from the new restrictions, however, was the agricultural industry, which is responsible for 80 percent of the state's water usage.

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.

The measure was opposed by environmental groups, who said the water transportation system would disrupt the habitat of certain fish species, and the White House had said the president would veto the bill if it passed.

Zeroing in on President Barack Obama, Fiorina, a Republican, said Monday, that '[he] goes out to California a little over a year ago, calls it a tragedy of global warming and hands out money to a food bank.'

'This is all about politics and policy, and it is liberal environmentalists who have brought us this tragedy,' she continued.

Fiorina, now a resident of Virginia, was referring to the president's February 2014 visit to San Luis Obispo. There he pledged to give California's food banks $60 million in aid, in addition to monies he said the state's farmers would receive, $15 million, and monies that were set aside for watershed improvement measures.

Zeroing in on President Barack Obama, Fiorina said Monday, that '[he] goes out to California a little over a year ago, calls it a tragedy of global warming and hands out money to a food bank.''This is all about politics and policy, and it is liberal environmentalists who have brought us this tragedy,' she continued. Obama is pictured here in Palm Springs during the trip Fiorina referred to

One of the so-called liberal environmental groups that Fiorina blamed on Monday for the state's water woes later told the Huffington Post that the Republican politician's argument was 'irrational.'

Knocking her as 'a science denier,' NextGen Climate said it was rich for Fiorina 'to opine that Democrats caused the drought in California.'

That's 'about as irrational as believing someone who failed at running a business in California and then failed as a candidate for office in California has any cause to be running for the highest office in the land,' the organization's spokesman, Bobby Whithorne, said.

Another group, the Sierra Club, took issue with the scientific aspect of her claims.

'For more than 100 years, environmentalists have failed to stop the damming of nearly every significant river in California. 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.

'That's because you can't store what's not there,' she said. '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.'

A spokeswoman for Fiorina doubled down her boss' claims in an email to Daily Mail Online, saying, 'It is clear that the radical environmental lobby would prefer to ignore the facts on this one.'

'We aren't storing rainfall or building water conveyance systems in California because they are willing to put fish before people,' Fiorina spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said.

Taking the argument a step further, Flores asserted that 'over 300 billion gallons of water are diverted away from farmers in the Central Valley and into the San Francisco Bay in order to protect the Delta smelt, an endangered fish that environmentalists have continued to champion at the expense of Californians.'

'Meanwhile, the President is touting the money he is sending to food banks but refuses to do anything about the 70% of rainfall that is going out to sea,' she added.