Central Valley Business Times (April 29, 2013)

The first step to improve the health of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is not construction of expert bypass tunnels but a comprehensive, science-based management of the multiple sources of stress on the ailing ecosystem, according to a report released today by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.

  "The case for more funding will be easier to make if policymakers and managers can show that the money will be spent in an integrated, cost-effective manner," says coauthor Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California at Davis and PPIC adjunct fellow.