Delta could get saltier if tunnels are built
The two giant water diversion tunnels Gov. Jerry Brown proposes building in the Delta would be large enough to meet annual water needs for a city such as Newport Beach in a single day's gulp from the Sacramento River.
That gulp, however, would also prevent a lot of fresh water from flowing through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. This would likely make water saltier for farms near Isleton and cities such as Antioch, which draws some of its drinking water from the Delta.
This marks just one of the complex trade-offs sprinkled through the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, the massive proposal to re-engineer California's primary water delivery system that includes the two tunnels.
The plan is intended to resolve decades of conflict between human demand for river water in counties south of the Delta, which are eager to secure water supplies in the face of earthquakes and climate change, and the harmful consequences for the estuary's imperiled wildlife, including native fish such as chinook salmon and Delta smelt.
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increase them? no sale. 