For Immediate Release: September 28, 2026 Contact:Ashley Castaneda, ashley@restorethedelta.org SACRAMENTO —  Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 872, a key water protection bill that would have dedicated funding to address two major threats to California’s water supply: aging levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and sinking canals in the State Water Project (SWP). The bill...Read More

Dear friends, On August 19, 2026, the Water Board released a final update to the Bay-Delta Plan, a critical rulemaking for ensuring: water quality, river flows and ecosystem protections for the state’s largest and most endangered estuary and watershed. Included in the final draft is the Board’s consideration of the inequitable and deceptive Voluntary Agreements.  The inequitable and scientifically inadequate Voluntary Agreements (VAs) face potential failure as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the massive Westlands Water District indicated that they...Read More