Commentary: It’s All About Water Storage
From The Fresno Bee, in a commentary by U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock:
“While President Obama proposes fighting the drought by spending another billion dollars on climate change, Gov. Brown proposes $14 billion for cross-delta tunnels that will produce exactly zero additional water storage and exactly zero additional hydroelectricity.
“Yet for roughly $6 billion we could complete the Shasta Dam to its design elevation, adding 9 million acre-feet of water storage to the Sacramento River system, nearly doubling its capacity.”