Commentary
The window may be closing on the Delta Conveyance Project as California slowly slides back to the stone age, while blaming everyone and everything except the organizations and individuals who have perfected the policy of paralysis by analysis.
The Delta Conveyance Project would be the completion of the state’s most vulnerable and valuable asset—and the pièce de résistance of what former Governor Pat Brown started in 1960, the State Water Project (SWP).
Despite Governor Pat Brown’s best efforts to quench the state’s thirst, the SWP was never completed. So, the problem remains: Most of the rain and snow falls in Northern California, but the world’s breadbasket—the Central Valley—and two-thirds of the state’s population rely on water deliveries at the southern end of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Roughly 30 percent of those water supplies are utilized in the Central Valley to grow food, and nearly 70 percent is consumed for residential, municipal, and industrial uses in the Silicon Valley and southern California….