Split widens over Bay-Delta water plan revisions
California is weighing its first major rewrite of Bay-Delta water rules in decades, considering changes to how much water must remain in rivers and giving regional water agencies a more flexible way to comply with those limits. On the second day of a three-day State Water Resources Control Board hearing on Thursday, stakeholders fell into three broad camps as they continued to debate how California should manage the Bay-Delta in the years ahead. They included state officials backing adoption of the plan, environmental and tribal groups seeking stronger protections, and water agencies that welcomed added flexibility but pushed for major changes to the staff proposal.
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