Governor Newsom, Restore the Bay-Delta!

Please do the right thing and support the Bay-Delta Plan.

The San Francisco Bay-Delta and the rivers that feed it need more water and more assistance environmental health!

Also please acknowledge the harm that human overpopulation does to the environment and work on ways to decrease human impact on the ecosystem. A lower total human population statewide as well as nationwide and worldwide will make management of many environmental problems easier. It all begins with our government acknowledging that excessive human populations, that overwhelm our resources, are the problem.

The VAs are inequitable, have caused inexcusable delay, and are built to fail. Please prioritize communities and ecosystems by abandoning the VAs and directing the State Water Board to protect the Bay-Delta.

Please make your legacy be that of keeping our state not only healthy and beautiful but prosperous and as close to sustainable as humanly possible in this day and age. Allow the State Water Board to do their job!

this letter perfectly states my sentiments. Pease support the BAy Delta Water Quality Control Plan.

It's time to do the right thing for nature. You ran on an environmental platform, yet you are causing harm to the last remaining and largest estuary on the West Coast - the Bay-Delta. It is time to allow the State Water Board to implement the Bay Delta Water Quality Control Plan and cease with your harmful VA agreement which only benefits water agencies and big Ag. You claim to respect the Tribes, yet you're taking away their livelihood and culture with your decision and causing more trauma to an already traumatized nation of people.

Governor Newsom, please be a champion for the San Francisco Bay and delta.

Abandon voluntary agreements. They are too complicated and create perverse incentives for water companies and agricultural districts to pretend to engage in habitat restoration by doing as little as possible. Just leave more unimpeded flow in the river and call it a day.

We need a stand up governor who REALLY cares about the environment, not just about campaign contributions.

While I appreciate the Governor’s idealistic efforts to seek voluntary commitment to restoration of our state’s aquatic ecosystems, history and recent evidence demonstrate that we humans, as a species, have yet to fully grok our interdependence with the ecosystems that envelop us – as we envelop and degrade them! As recently as winter 2023, we saw how, when push comes to shove, human interests always outweigh those of other species. Good intentions are wonderful but they are best supported by regulatory tools that help guide us toward less anthropocentric biases.

Clean healthy water is more important than corporate profiteering.

Voluntary are just that voluntary and subject to changes as the winds shift and "needs change". The SWRCB is the constitutional agency called to regulate and enforce requirements, not industry X, Y, and Z. Actions are necessary now to protect public health and the environment.

We don't need the Delta tunnel when there are better alternatives. The non-native honey bee-exploiting/proliferating, glyphosate/Roundup spraying, thirsty almond industry is slowing down, alfalfa and dairy are not climate-compatible nor ethical, so this is an opportunity to explore more sustainable and regenerative agriculture.

RESTORE the Bay-Delta to its natural state!

Do the right thing for the next 7 generations.

Gavin, please do this. with love, Locke

Big Ag provides a small percentage of financial return to the state but demands disproportionate amounts of our water. We want to see our salmon survive and thrive. We do NOT benefit from Stuart Resnick's almond exports.

Our natural resources are irreplaceable ....please don't sacrifice them for political gain. The people of California deserve better, show them you know how!

Central Valley farmers and SoCal cities - go somewhere else for your water! You're already sucking way more Delta water than you deserve.