Opinion: Governor must integrate justice into state water policy
California must change how it allocates water to give tribal communities and communities of color an equal voice. Today, that’s not the case. Nowhere are water policy inequities clearer than in the Bay-Delta “voluntary agreement” process – a Newsom administration effort where water agencies reach agreement to restore habitat and the amount of water to release water from dams through rivers and into the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta estuary.
-Written by Caleen Sisk, chief and spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, located in Northern California, and Barbara Barrigan-Parilla, executive director of Restore the Delta.