Contra Costa Times reports on the steady progress of plans for a 50-mile aquaduct that would cut through the eastern Delta and divert water south without having to pass through the structurally and environmentally unsound channels California now uses.
The story includes interviews with northern Central Valley farmers who claim the canal could threaten their water rights and allow Bay saltwater to seep into their water supply. Says a sixth-generation farmer from Clarksburg: "This is being framed as a fish-versus-people issue, when in actuality it's a people-versus-people issue."
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