Newsom’s Delta pitch: It’s for the climate
Gov. Gavin Newsom has a new sales pitch for a tunnel to move more water south from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that past governors have tried and failed to build for five decades. “The Delta conveyance is an adaptation project,” he said last week in a snowy field in the Sierra Nevada, where a winter that started out dry eventually delivered a just-above-average snowpack that will soon melt into the Sacramento River and its tributaries. … Long-skeptical Delta lawmakers aren’t convinced by the latest rationale. “He’s searching for a reason,” said Representative John Garamendi, a Democrat from the western part of the Delta.