Editorial: Newsom’s Delta tunnel plan could work — but only as part of a more comprehensive water effort
The problem with the theory is that a delta tunnel (state officials like to call it a “conveyance”) would yield all those benefits only if it were one piece of a larger complex of projects, policies and agreements to keep water flowing through the overly depleted San Joaquin River and limit the volume and timing of water diversions. And those other parts of the puzzle simply aren’t there.