Sunday morning’s top of the scroll: ‘Join the conversation’ on water legislation at the Sacramento Bee

From the Join the Conversation section of the Sacramento Bee:

“The Delta is in crisis. All the water that flows from the northern Sierra and the Cascades to Southern California and parts of the Bay Area moves through the Delta, and the movement of that water south is blamed for damage to habitat that has threatened chinook salmon and Delta smelt. The courts have curtailed water shipments to save the fish.

Scientific experts also have warned that sea-level rise in the coming decades will flood the freshwater Delta with salt water, permanently changing its composition and rendering the current system of pumps obsolete. Farming could become impossible in much of the region. Finally, an earthquake could easily damage Delta levees, allowing ocean water to flood the area in a few hours, ending freshwater shipments to Southern California for years.

All of these long-term threats have combined with a third year of drought in California to bring the issue to a boil.

Here is a quick look at five major issues at the center of the debate. …”

More from the Sacramento Bee by clicking here, which includes a discussion of the issues by Ellen Hanak, Peter Moyle, and Jay Lund. Also, two commentaries and an editorial also running in the Sacramento Bee follow this post.

You can comment in the Sacramento Bee’s discussion forum by clicking here.

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