Is SF hoarding water? One environmental group wants the city to get real about its planning
An environmental group is arguing that the city’s water agency is taking too much water from the Sierra Nevadas, and that its drought planning will wind up hoarding water unnecessarily and hurting vulnerable river ecosystems. The group, Tuolomne River Trust, says its pleadings have fallen on deaf ears up until now. But with the state mulling the Bay Delta Water Quality Control Plan, a plan that would reduce the city’s rights to water from the Tuolomne River, the question of whether San Francisco controls more than its fair share of water is back up for discussion and spilled over into a meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday.