This commentary was published in the Sacramento Bee on December 2, 2016
Conflict over water allocations from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is the most intractable water management problem in California. The sources of contention are many, but three interrelated issues dominate the debate: whether to build two tunnels that divert water from the Sacramento River, how much water to allocate to endangered fish species, and what to do about the 1,100 miles of Delta levees that are essential to the local economy. Here we outline a potential “grand compromise” for the Delta that meets the co-equal goals of water supply reliability and ecosystem health prescribed by the 2009 Delta Reform Act.
Read the full commentary on sacbee.com.
Read California’s Water: The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (from the California’s Water briefing kit, October 2016)