Water, Water Everwhere

In June each year the Water Education Foundation of Sacramento runs a three day Bay-Delta tour and spends the morning of the final day at the Bay Model in Sausalito. Dick Jordan always works at the Bay Model that day and attends the presentation on Delta water issues that precedes the participants' tour of the Model.

This year, Ellen Hanak of the Public Policy Institute of California spoke about the PPIC's July 2008 report "Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta". The report looks at alternatives, including some version of a "Peripheral Canal" (one proposal was nixed by California voters in 1982), for preserving fish and wildlife while ensuring reliable freshwater supplies for the millions of Californians who depend on the Delta for this life-giving liquid. (Click here to read either the summary of or the full report; additional papers published by the PPIC on water issues can be found by clicking here).