Editorial: No wet people without wetlands
I have often heard Californians who claim they are concerned about water conservation in the state say: “Why do we let rivers run all the way to the sea?” I hear them, and I have no idea what they mean. I mean, that’s what rivers do. They run to the sea. Flow, river flow, and all that. We live on a blue planet, not on some engineered man-made construction. … [R]ivers are not some commodity out of which we can suck water to drink and irrigate our dichondra and wash our cars as if that were its first purpose. Rivers flowing do not “go to waste.” They give life to riparian plants, and trees, and all the fauna that live beside that flora.