As state agencies push for approval of the waterfix plan in September, Bob Wright, the senior counsel for Friends of the River, on June 14 sent an email to the Delta Independence Science Board members criticizing the “content and tone” of their public review draft for “defending the Final EIR/EIS” for the Delta Tunnels/California WaterFix project “instead of addressing such serious deficiencies as the complete failure of the EIR/EIS to include any alternatives finally beginning to restore through-Delta flows by reducing exports.”