Thursday Top of the Scroll: Bruce Babbitt urges creation of Bay-Delta compact to end ‘culture of conflict’ in California’s key water hub
When Babbitt speaks, people take notice, and he didn’t disappoint before a packed house at the annual Anne J. Schneider Lecture April 3 in Sacramento, offering thoughts on some of California’s thorniest water issues and proposing a Bay-Delta Compact, a kind of grand bargain to end persistent conflict surrounding the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.