For California water supply, $150 million spent to not solve the problem
California salmon run
Four years and $150 million into a major study of plans to re-engineer elements of California’s main source of water, a National Science Foundation review found the multi-billion-dollar proposal confused, poorly defined and inadequately researched. That’s the gist of a piece by Gosia Wozniacka of The Associated Press picked up by the Riverside Press Enterprise.
Power brokers managing California’s fresh water supplies have long sought more access to the state’s two major rivers — the Sacramento and the San Joaquin. But taking too much water from the rivers creates all sorts of problems: (more…)
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Beltway Outsider, Bureau of Reclamation, Clean Water, Dept. of Agriculture, Dept. of the Interior, Environment, Fish & Wildlife Service, Infrastructure and Mass Transit, Lobbyists, National Science Foundation, Regulation
Tags: California, delta pumps, fingerlings, fish extinction, sacramento river, salmon, San Joaquin River
Tags: California, delta pumps, fingerlings, fish extinction, sacramento river, salmon, San Joaquin River
