Newsom warns of water woes as delta debate roils
Gov. Gavin Newsom sounded an alarm last week as he announced a strategy to capture and store more water while investing in infrastructure to avert catastrophic impacts of an anticipated loss of another 10% in California water supplies by 2040. Newsom’s water plan seeks to create storage space for up to 4 million acre-feet of water, in hopes of capturing more water in wet years. … Just a day before Newsom’s water message, the State Water Resources Control Board was hearing concerns about environmental documents for a proposed regulation to direct more river flows away from irrigators and down the lower San Joaquin River tributaries to benefit fish.