Professor Frank Comments on Drought and State Politics for Los Angeles Times

Professor of Environmental Practice Richard Frank commented for the Los Angeles Times on the political difficulties Governor Jerry Brown will face in working to address water shortages and California's drought.

Among Brown's proposals is a plan to build two massive tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to send water from Northern California to farms and cities farther south. Frank said that resolving conflicts over the allocation of Delta water remains "the single toughest political nut to crack."

"The status quo in the Delta is completely unsustainable," Frank said. "But the consensus really ends there."

Frank, a 1974 graduate of King Hall, is a leader in the field of environmental law and the founding Director of the California Environmental Law and Policy Center at UC Davis School of Law.

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