Opinion: Delta tunnels are not a climate project

Excerpt: It should be noted that with climate change droughts will be longer, and floods will be more extreme. Tunnels will not protect people or the state’s water supply.

While we celebrate Brown building overseas alliances to do the hard work of mitigating climate change and reducing emissions in light of the Trump administration’s failure to do so, the public should not be misled that the Delta tunnels are a climate change project.

Unless dealt with in an expedient and aggressive manner, climate change will create havoc for the Delta’s ecosystem and management of drinking water supplies for millions, but the Delta Tunnels will fail to mitigate these impacts. The tunnels will make water management in California worse.

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