Today’s blog breaks my heart.
Why?
Because Restore the Delta is focused on water quality issues, flood control issues, future planning, and training the next generation of local water experts – for that is where hope exists.
We are focused on the future because in some ways we have become very cynical about any positive meaningful change to Delta management presently — from the lack of care at the highest levels of government to local pockets of Delta communities that will not acknowledge the deterioration of the estuary before their eyes.
Our Delta faces many threats
At all levels, we see leaders who want what they want from the estuary: unrestricted water exports; a destructive mega-tunnel; discharge of pollutants without regulatory oversight; delisting of endangered fisheries; limited, private recreation and access to waterways so as to keep urban people (people of color) away; denial around sea level rise and needed mitigation for flood threats unless there are deal sweeteners; elimination of the Delta’s family farms and their proud history; erasure of the tragic history of the region’s tribal ancestors and immigrant communities who built the Delta levees; new energy drilling and mechanical sequestration processes that could harm the Delta’s groundwater basin; neglect by local government to eliminate the dumping of trash in our waterways; expansion of Port of Stockton operations (including tunnel construction) without proper environmental mitigation planning efforts to protect disadvantaged communities; and lack of local plans to humanely relocate the homeless away from toxic algal blooms.
FULL STORY: https://www.restorethedelta.org/2021/04 ... either-way
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