A Water Agenda for Governor Brown – Incorporating the Best Available Science
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From NRDC – Tuesday, Dec. 7 2010
by Barry Nelson
California faces complex water management challenges. Using the best available science to guide water management discussions is one of the keys to developing workable solutions.
Coalition viewpoint...The “virtual river,” as identified in previous blogs, ignores the need to develop additional water supplies, increase storage facilities and an improved conveyance system to deliver that water. Conservation and continued water use efficiency must be a part of our future efforts but agreement by multiple interests has been reached that new water supplies must be part of the solution.
It’s difficult to accept the plea to apply “best available science” when and at the same time abandon objections to current biological opinions governing the flow of water through the Delta. A federal judge has already ruled that those opinions are flawed for, in part, ignoring the impacts on humans. We’ve already seen those impacts in farmworker families forced to stand in food lines because of lost jobs resulting from water cutbacks directed by the opinions. Perhaps it would be better to call for “best reasonable science.”
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