Editorial: Adam Schiff has been busy with Calif. ag issues, but Delta water project needs attention
… We applaud the senator’s efforts thus far, but suggest he get up to speed quickly on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Delta Conveyance Project, a proposal to modernize the state’s water infrastructure by constructing tunnels to divert water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to the California Aqueduct. Sen. Alex Padilla has not taken a any stand. “I haven’t reached a conclusion on the conveyance project yet,” Schiff said. “I’m still in the process, frankly, of trying to get my head around the whole agriculture industry. I would say the subset of agriculture that is the most difficult is water. People spend a lifetime studying it and still struggle with it.” Schiff said he is “trying to figure out what is the most effective and efficient way to meet the competing needs of farms, cities (and) wildlife.” The multi-billion cost of the project, he added, requires “we weigh the costs of that with what it would deliver.”
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