Opinion: New priorities needed for California’s next drought
A series of key decisions await Gov. Gavin Newsom as the state heads back into a potential drought. So this seems like the right moment to review what happened last time: Water was prioritized for big agriculture at the expense of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, endangered species and California communities. The State Water Board, in a review of the drought of 2014-15, found operations “not sustainable.” We hope Newsom will prevent a repeat of that disaster by … [p]rotecting the human right to water for drinking and sanitation, protecting public health for those who live adjacent to our rivers, and protecting endangered species.
-Written by Darius Waiters, of Restore the Delta’s Climate Water Team, and Brandon Dawson, a policy advocate with Sierra Club California.