Today, Governor Newsom announced a “significant proposal” that would fast-track the controversial Delta Tunnel. 

Food & Water Watch California Director Nicole Ghio released the following statement: 

“Our Governor is absolutely correct that climate change has had a significant impact on our state’s water supplies, posing a major risk for millions of Californians that need and deserve clean, safe drinking water. However – as we have been saying for years – the Delta Tunnel is not the answer. Rather than recklessly fast-tracking this unnecessary, harmful, and expensive project that will mainly benefit corporate agribusinesses and other powerful interests, Governor Newsom must hold major polluters accountable and immediately rein in the water abuse by the big agribusiness and fossil fuel corporations that guzzle up billions of gallons of California’s water.”