In the latest escalation of the California water wars, a statewide coalition of fishing, environmental and farming groups on Monday, June 17 will announce the filing of a lawsuit to stop the Delta Plan, a document that lays the groundwork for the Delta water export tunnels. The details of the lawsuit will be released to the media in a conference call and press release. The groups filing the litigation include the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN), California Sportfishing Project Alliance, and AquAlliance; Restore the Delta, Friends of the River and the Center for Biological Diversity. "The Delta Reform Act gave the Delta Stewardship Council a historic opportunity to remedy 40 years of water policy failures,” said Santa Barbara resident Carolee Krieger, executive director of the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN), a statewide water advocacy organization. "The council instead failed to use the best available science – biological or economic - and adopted a status quo program that fails to fix the Delta or the water supply problem. The Council failed to honor its own mandate: the adoption of an effective strategy for the distribution of water and the preservation of the Delta,” Krieger stated.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:18:49 +0000
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