Coyote walking across the dry Kern River bed in the City of Bakersfield, California. It’s as if the coyote is asking “where’s the water?”, 💦 two days after the California Supreme Court @CaSupremeCourt heard arguments related to a lawsuit to require Bakersfield to keep enough water flowing in the river to sustain fish instead of preferentially diverting all of the water for other uses. The final judgment ⚖️ is expected within 90 days. (Viewed earlier today along the Kern River bike trail, several hundred feet east of the Calloway Bridge.)
Makes you wonder how effective the Voluntary Agreements (ironically called Healthy Rivers) pushed by governor and major water districts is if they required the “science” behind it to be secret. 🤫
New: For the 3rd time, we're learning California's government has quietly been using a confidentiality agreement to keep info under wraps.
This time, to keep some science secret.
That science is related to the Newsom administration's Bay-Delta Plan:
https://t.co/E6I84RJTuC
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@CA_DWR And yet it's not very funny that DWR wants to construct the massive Delta Tunnel project, removing needed freshwater from the Sacramento River near the Town of Hood before it can freshen the Delta and provide needed water supplies for fish, farms and local communities. #CAwx
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