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