Opinion: Democrats’ new strategy to winning Calif. water wars? Flush the science
In October of 2019, the desire of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) desire to update the biological opinions governing the Sacramento-San Joaquin was met after more than a decade of detailed data on water management, fish species management, and flows in relation to both were compiled. New biological opinions, issued in 2019, were the result of the very latest scientific information. … Now, a mere two years later, the Biden Administration and Governor Newsom have unilaterally decided to throw that work away and start over.
-Written by Wayne Western Jr., SJV Sun contributor.