The River Restoration Project was started due to the shortage of water and salmon. I side with the article "River Restoration Project Offers a Sprinkling of Hope", written by Daniel Weintraub, because I believe the San Joaquin River should be restored. Though Weintraub has not been in the newspaper industry for as long as Bill McEwen has, he has worked with more companies doing different things, giving him more experience. Weintraub has worked with three different newspaper companies including the Sacramento Bee and as a political analyst. The article was published by the Sacramento Bee, located in the capital of California. Sacramento is a city where big businesses and politics are important; whereas in Fresno, they’re all for the people. Since there have already been multiple trials towards the restoration of the San Joaquin River, the money
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"The river will not necessarily be restored to its full... Too much has changed in the decades since it was dammed." (2) Once the rivers start being restored, not everything will automatically go back to how conditions were four years ago. It will progress slowly and my hopes are citizens of California will learn to be more wise with their water usage, so when the river is fully restored there will not be another drought making the $400 million spent a waste. "Within a few years, thousands of salmon should be swimming upstream through what is now a parched valley landscape." (1) As of now, there are no salmon due to the San Joaquin River being completely dried out. With this project, biologists expect to see a river full of salmon thriving where their home once was. Even though citizens might not want to cut down on their usage of water because they feel like it was affecting them drastically, they should at least try to make minimal changes and evolve from
"The river will not necessarily be restored to its full... Too much has changed in the decades since it was dammed." (2) Once the rivers start being restored, not everything will automatically go back to how conditions were four years ago. It will progress slowly and my hopes are citizens of California will learn to be more wise with their water usage, so when the river is fully restored there will not be another drought making the $400 million spent a waste. "Within a few years, thousands of salmon should be swimming upstream through what is now a parched valley landscape." (1) As of now, there are no salmon due to the San Joaquin River being completely dried out. With this project, biologists expect to see a river full of salmon thriving where their home once was. Even though citizens might not want to cut down on their usage of water because they feel like it was affecting them drastically, they should at least try to make minimal changes and evolve from