The CALFED Bay-Delta Revised Phase II Plan, released in December 1998, is summarized in this issue of Western Water. It provides background on the Bay-Delta Estuary and the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, an overview of the program elements in CALFED’s plan and details about CALFED’s proposed Environmental Water Account. The article also explores some of the more contentious issues in this ongoing consensus process – conveyance, additional water storage, and costs and financing of the ultimate preferred Delta “fix”.