The Newsom Administration wants to spend $20 billion of taxpayer dollars to build a giant tunnel that would 1) degrade water quality, 2) cause native species to go extinct & 3) do absolutely nothing to fix CA's water woes.

Learn more & take action here: https://baykeeper.org/stop-newsoms-deadly-delta-tunnel-project/

There's a lot of misinformation out there about #CAwater. Want to understand what's *actually* going on?

We highly recommend watching RIVER'S END: CALIFORNIA'S LATEST WATER WAR, which is now available for streaming

The film features some of California's top water experts, including @petergleick and our own science director @jarosenfield

Learn more: riversendfilm.com

Trump's rushed executive order on California water rests on a lot of false premises and "shows an incredible lack of understanding of how California water works," as our science director @jarosenfield told @CALMatters https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2025/01/trump-california-water-delta-rules/ #cawater #californiawater #delta #CAdelta #water #fish

As Baykeeper attorney Eric Buescher & @RestoreTheDelta director Barbara Barrigan-Parilla write, water agencies should ditch the costly ill-conceived #DeltaTunnel and instead focus on addressing the many other challenges facing the State Water Project, including: "expired water rights, sinking aqueducts, properly maintaining Delta levees, an ecosystem in crisis, and more than a century of ignoring or exploiting Tribes and environmental justice communities, all of which are critical to a thriving Delta, state, and sustainable water management system for all Californians." https://mavensnotebook.com/2025/01/07/guest-commentary-tunneling-through-trouble-missteps-mismanagement-and-the-costly-pursuit-of-the-delta-conveyance-project/ #cawater #californiawater #cadelta #californiadelta #environmentaljustice

A new plan for California's water would increase the chances that salmon, smelt & steelhead would go #extinct: "Not only do the proposed operations make things no better (for fish in the San Francisco Bay-Delta), they actually make things worse," as our science director @jarosenfield told @CALMatters
https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2024/10/california-delta-plan-trump-newsom-salmon/