OPINION: Delta Islands Purchase is to Restore Wetlands, Not Capture Water
There is talk that the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is purchasing four islands and tracts in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to construct a reservoir project to divert more water from the estuary. It’s not true, and events will prove so in the days and weeks ahead.
But the prevalence of this opinion, which even finds its way into newspaper pages such as this one, gets to the heart of a far more troubling issue. Too much of our discourse about the Delta is based on fear rather than reality.
