Newsom wants to build a $16-billion water tunnel. Will it destroy California's delta?

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Newsom wants to build a $16-billion water tunnel. Will it destroy California's delta?
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The Delta Conveyance Project is a key component of Gov. Gavin Newsom's strategy for a hotter, drier California. Opponents say it will be an ecological disaster.

In the heart of California, at the place where two great rivers converge beneath the Tule fog, lies the linchpin of one of the largest water supply systems in the world. Here in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, birds soar the Pacific Flyway, cows graze beside sodden rice fields and red reeds poke from still depths.

That same month, a group of environmental and tribal organizations — including Restore the Delta, San Francisco Baykeeper and the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians — filed a lawsuit to stop the project, arguing that it violates the California Environmental Quality Act and that its environmental report fails to address potential harms to marginalized communities and endangered fish populations and wildlife.

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