Restore the Delta Responds to Peripheral Tunnels Update

Restore the Delta responded to today’s statements by Brown Administration officials at a legislative informational hearing regarding the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP), the administration’s peripheral tunnels plan. Delta exports vs. Regional self-sufficiency: “DWR head Mark Cowin has it wrong.  If we invest in regional water projects throughout the state, as we reduce water taken [...]

Voters Will Kill a Peripheral Canal

Diverting Sacramento River water around the delta will make pollution worse. Increased pollution will further degrade fisheries and diminish the productivity of hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland. There is water for both people and fish if it is efficiently and equitably used.

Consumer, Environmental Advocates Call for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Peripheral Canal/Tunnel Despite AB 2421 Defeat

Consumer and environmental advocates responded to the failure of the Assembly Appropriations Committee to pass AB 2421 today, calling for an independent cost-benefit analysis before committing the public to pay tens of billions of dollars to build a peripheral canal or tunnel to divert the Sacramento river. “Urban water users would pay billions of dollars [...]

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