Dems push for Delta action
Share this pageAmid judicial threats to shut down water pumps to protect endangered fish, Senate Democrats on Monday unveiled legislation that would set a deadline for consensus for how California should maintain its largest source of fresh water—the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
“The Delta is going to hell in a handbasket,” said Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, one of the authors of Senate Bill 27. “There are 23 million Californians who were understandably worried about water quality and water security, which they depend on. And Northern Californians who have traditionally thought of it as ‘their water’ continue to be anxious about how much of that water would flow to other parts of the state.”
SB 27 sets a Jan. 1, 2008, deadline for the state Department of Water Resources to pick one of five options for water transfer put forth by a recent research paper.
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