Editorial: Newsom takes page out of Trump’s water playbook
Clean water is California’s most vital need. Our lives and the lives of future generations depend on it.The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta provides drinking water to 27 million Californians, or roughly 70% of the state’s residents. On Feb. 15, the governor signed an executive order allowing the State Water Resources Control Board to ignore the state requirement of how much water needs to flow through the Delta to protect its health.
The move is especially outrageous given the January storms that filled California’s reservoirs and created a massive Sierra snowpack. If the governor won’t adhere to the state regulations in what is clearly a wet year, when will he? We would be more sympathetic to agriculture’s needs if it made more responsible use of the state’s limited water supply. Agriculture accounts for only about 3% of California’s overall economy. Yet it receives 80% of the state’s available water.
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