Nonbinding

Once you find the actual document, the “draft report” link, read it, and decide whether you think it should be made into law.

A careful bit of work. What a job these folks have. We guess is they do it with a cynical and thoughtful grin. We hope so.

Ideals are not policy. Policy is not law. Laws are not plans. Plans, laws, policies and ideals require enforcement, etc.

Is this possibly a plan to just kill the delta? Paranoid types like we are here at the DNP might conclude that it could be nothing else since its conclusions are extremely impractical. It’s sure not a plan to fix, save, restore, preserve, or co-equally manage the Delta.

It may not be a plan, but it is a description of the scale of the predicament. Those charged with producing this analysis were given a thankless task: how much water does the Delta, and its ecosystem, need to survive?

Some are not happy with the conclusions. Others are.

The answer is in dispute, but is probably as accurate, subtle, and complete as any analysis that has been produced to date.

It is also nonbinding. Simply a description of the problem.