Blog: Why Give Away Fish Flows for Free During a Drought?
From the California WaterBlog by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, in a post by Jay Lund, Ellen Hanak, Barton “Buzz” Thompson, Brian Gray, Jeffrey Mount and Katrina Jessoe:
“With California in a major drought, state and federal regulators will be under pressure to loosen environmental flow standards that protect native fish. This happened in the 1976-77 and 1987-92 droughts, and today’s drought could become much worse.”
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