Commentary: A New Approach to Protecting Rivers

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This commentary was published in the Sacramento Bee on November 20, 2017.
California’s native freshwater fish—salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and others—continue to decline, and regulations to reverse this trend have fanned controversy. A new approach to environmental stewardship is needed. We should start by granting the environment a water right, as detailed in a new report by the PPIC Water Policy Center.