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
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
State officials have failed to stop destructive #InvasiveSpecies from spreading to the Bay-Delta despite laws on the books designed to do so: “We had the highest standards in the world, but they were never actually enforced because the state couldn’t come up with a set of technologies to implement them,” as our attorney Ben Eichenberg explained to CalMatters https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/11/california-mussels-enforcement-ballast-water-ships/ @CALMatters #cadelta #californiadelta #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #waterpollution #ballastpollution #ballastwater
We and are our partners are pushing back against the #DeltaTunnel project, which -- among many other issues -- leaves out Tribes and environmental justice communities.
Read more from Maven's Notebook:
https://mavensnotebook.com/2024/11/10/notebook-feature-numerous-appeals-filed-for-dwrs-consistency-determination-for-the-delta-conveyance-project-geotechnical-activities/ @RestoreTheDelta #cawater #californiawater #deltatunnels #californiadelta
"All these species that we think of as being endangered and on the precipice of disappearing, we've forgotten that they used to be abundant,” as our science director @jarosenfield said.
The slow change in what society--& regulators--expect of the natural world is a silent killer of the Bay-Delta ecosystem 
@RestoreTheDelta #KlamathRiver #baydelta #sanfranciscobay #californiadelta #cawater #fish #wildlife #endangeredspecies
The #DeltaTunnel would divert vast quantities of water from the Bay-Delta estuary to industrial agricultural operations—as well as to large cities outside of the #SanFranciscoBayDelta watershed.
The health of the Bay-Delta, its wildlife, and its residents depend on fresh water flowing from Central Valley tributary rivers into the Bay.
That's why we're joining a coalition of Tribal and environmental allies to take legal action: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/environmental-and-tribal-organizations-sue-stop-delta-tunnel-project #cawater #californiawater #californiadelta
Last week, the state released its environmental impact report for the ill-conceived multi-billion-dollar #DeltaTunnel project.
The tunnel would divert excessive amounts of water from #SFBay and make matters worse for the #fish & communities that depend on this ecosystem.
Learn more: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/baykeeper-statement-state-releases-environmental-report-delta-tunnel #cawater #delta #californiadelta #sanfranciscobay
Anything happening in the upper watershed affects the Delta & Bay—and cars contain lead, mercury, and other pollutants:
"Cars just don't belong in our waters and that's the bottom line," as Baykeeper executive director Sejal Choksi-Chugh put it. https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/cars-just-dont-belong-in-our-waters-removing-vehicles-from-sacramento-river-raises-concerns/
#BayDelta #waterpollution #cadelta #californiadelta
The proposed voluntary agreements assume that more habitat = more 
— but fish need healthy river flows first & foremost:
"They're trading 'habitat' for flow, but this doesn't have a basis in science," as our science director
@jarosenfield says in the latest edition of Estuary News: https://archive.estuarynews.org/va-agreement-highlights-habitat-questions/ #water #cawater #californiawater #fish #endangeredspecies #californiadelta #sanfranciscobay #baydelta
"If the governor won't adhere to the state regulations in what is clearly a wet year, when will he?"
The Mercury News/East Bay Times Editorial Board calls out Newsom for taking a page out of Trump's playbook & caving to #BigAg at the cost of the Delta ecosystem: https://mercurynews.com/2023/03/01/editorial-when-it-comes-to-water-newsom-is-hardly-an-environmentalist/ #cawater #californiawater #californiadelta #gavinnewsom
