Editorial: Zone 7 board members will determine the future of our water supply
During the next few years, key issues for Zone 7’s Water Agency Board of Directors will involve managing the drought, deciding whether to mandate increased water rationing, and determining whether to continue support for the state’s scaled-down Delta Conveyance project. The infrastructure project — now one tunnel instead of two — would take massive quantities of water rushing from the Sierra Nevada through the Sacramento River and divert them from their natural flow into the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary, so that they can be used by 27 million residents and 750,000 acres of farmland from the Tri-Valley to San Diego.