The plan here in each of the options is to build the Peripheral Canal AND let the delta fall to pieces and allow more salt to intrude as levves are destroyed or allowed to fail in order to create more marshland.
So the farmers in the delta get screwed and LA gets their water. Obviously, you don't live in the area affected by this, do you?
So, NO! I don't cry for north delta farmers, but I do for south delta farmers who are being screwed as we speak and its not an iff or but, it is happening right now. State contractors have already lost over 500,000 acre feet of water this year and only have 35% of their water. Federal contractors only 45% of their water mostly from the Judge Wangers ruling and partially from a very dry March and April hydrology. The Governor and most AQWA members are not going to let the levees fall apart and most of the left wing democratic legislature is in the hip pocket of environmental groups who force the politicians to earmark and spend wasted billions of dollars on the levees and will attempt to block the canal. Every agency in the State agrees that a canal is needed in some form or other and it will happen eventually, but not for Metropolitan water district or Socal area, but for central valley farming. Only if common sense prevails.