By Jess Harris
01/28/2024
California State Water Board and Staff,
The request for permanent instream flows is, at best, ignorant. The several eco-terrorist groups that have submitted the petition for rulemaking either lack the understanding that the State Water Board (SWB) has no authority to set instream flows outside of the Emergency Order or they intend for the SWB to ignore the court precedents restricting their authority over water rights (California Water Curtailment Cases, 2022).
