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Meghan Hertel is interim state codirector and director of Land and Water Conservation at Audubon California. John McManus is executive director of the Golden Gate Salmon Association.
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The Central Valley Project Improvement Act was an ambitious effort toward balanced and sustainable water policy and it holds lessons for today, write Audubon’s Meghan Hertel and Golden Gate Salmon Association’s John McManus.
A water recycling plant in the Central Valley will provide water to farmers and wildlife refuges. The water comes at a critical time for waterfowl, which have suffered during California’s five-year drought, says wildlife expert Meghan Hertel.
Meghan Hertel, Audubon California’s Working Lands director, writes that often-vilified Central Valley wildlife refuges are still not getting their full federal water allocations.
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