State Water Resources Control Board's Racial Equity resolution and what it means in practice

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State Water Resources Control Board's Racial Equity resolution and what it means in practice

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New #DeltaFlows: At a public hearing this week, our executive director Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla offered comments on the State Water Resources Control Board's Racial Equity resolution and what it means in practice.

DELTA FLOWS 11/17/21: Environmental Justice and the Sacramento River Voluntary Agreements
In 2020, the State Water Boards held a series of four public listening sessions to help inform a resolution and action plan that address racial inequity both within the Water Boards and as they implement programs and policies that preserve, protect, and restore California’s drinking water and water resources.

Water Boards Racial Equity Initiative Site
At a public hearing this week, Restore the Delta’s executive director, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, offered these comments on the resolution and what it means in practice:

Our environmental justice community appreciates the hard work by Board Staff to craft the resolution before the board for consideration. We applaud the procedures put in place to support water board staff from BIPOC communities and to strengthen their work within the boards. We support comments made earlier by Doug Obegi and Regina Chichizola because they intersect with how we believe the equity resolutions should be implemented. We fully support the resolution as policy.

We worry about the implementation.
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