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Proposed Water Board updates to BayDelta Plan should Protect water quality, not voluntary agreements [1]
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Date: 2025-07-24
Sacramento — The State Water Resources Control Board has just released its controversial proposed updates to the Sacramento Delta portions of the Bay-Delta Plan: mavensnotebook.com/…
The proposal includes both the Big Ag-backed voluntary agreements on water, strongly opposed by Tribes, environmental groups, fishing organizations and environmental justice organizations, and a “regulatory pathway.”
The non-profit Save California Salmon group responded to the release of the plan.
“The Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan (Bay-Delta Plan) update is necessary to protect the water quality in the Bay-Delta and Sacramento River watershed,” said Regina Chichizola, Executive Director of Save California Salmon. in a statement. “This watershed is critically important to salmon, Tribes, and the tens of millions of Californians that get their drinking water from, or live in the Delta.”
“Water is our most precious resource and it is extremely overallocated due to agricultural diversions. This plan should be guided by science, not politics or profit, to ensure enough water is left in the system for ecosystems, fish, and clean drinking water. We are very disappointed to see the board pushing voluntary actions by large scale agricultural interests after decades of inaction and failed voluntary solutions,” she concluded.
The proposal was released as Governor Gavin Newsom is fast-tracking the Delta Tunnel, Sites Reservoir and the voluntary agreements in order to export more Delta water to his Big Ag donors and Southern California water agencies.
The two projects, in tandem with the voluntary agreements, will seal the doom of imperiled Sacramento River winter, spring and fall-run Chinook salmon, Delta smelt, longfin smelt, green sturgeon, white sturgeon, Central Valley steelhead and other fish species, already in unprecedented crisis, due to the already massive water exports to corporate agribusiness and Southern California water brokers, along with other factors.
As I receive more responses to the proposal, I will post them here.
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