By Brian Gray, Leon Szeptycki and Buzz Thompson, Sacramento Bee

California’s native freshwater fish – salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and others – continue to decline, and regulations to reverse this trend have fanned controversy. A new approach to environmental stewardship is needed.

We should start by granting the environment a water right, as detailed in a new report we helped write for the Public Policy Institute of California.

The way California manages water for environmental purposes isn’t working for anyone.

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