Collaborative Junk Science Is the Core of the Delta VA
After years of exclusionary backroom negotiations over Bay-Delta voluntary agreements, earlier this week the State made a ham-fisted attempt to greenwash these...
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Delta Voluntary Agreements Are a “Plan to Fail” in Droughts
Rather than planning for droughts and ensuring that minimum water quality objectives are achieved in critically dry years, the proposed voluntary agreement...
Bay-Delta VA: A Sweetheart Deal to Subsidize Agribusiness
Not only does the proposed Bay-Delta voluntary agreement wholly fail to provide the water that the environment needs , but even the woefully inadequate flows...
Honey, the VAs Shrunk the Delta Flows
Since the State Water Resources Control Board began its public process to update the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan in 2008, the amount of water proposed...
Who (and What) Are Excluded from Backroom Bay-Delta "Deal"
The State’s recent announcement of a proposed voluntary agreement (“VA” for short) for the Bay-Delta watershed is the result of an illegitimate, exclusionary...
Drought Shows that CA’s Water Rights System Is Bankrupt
California’s ongoing drought—or more accurately, our new normal in light of the reality of climate change—demonstrates that California’s water system is...