<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "> I sure hope this isn't a big promotional tool for the resurrection of the Peripheral Canal!<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="7"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 96px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT><DIV>Dan</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><IMG src="cid:5A1D69B3-FD1D-4939-91A1-D9D4C10AF127@local"><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 24px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 24px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"><B>Media Advisory: </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px; text-decoration: underline;"><B>For Immediate Release</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -72px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 72px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"><B>Contact: </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Rachel Pitts (916) 443-3354 </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 48px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:rachel.pitts@porternovelli.com"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0016FF" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">rachel.pitts@porternovelli.com</SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><P align="center" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 24px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"><B>A PPIC Phone-Conference Briefing</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 21.3px/normal Times New Roman; min-height: 25px; "><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21.3px; "></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B>DETERIORATING AND DEADLOCKED:</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B>THE FUTURE OF THE SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -84px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 84px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>WHAT: </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) is holding a telephone press briefing on its new study, </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><I>Envisioning Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">. This report finds that the Delta, a vital natural resource and major supplier of the state’s water, is on a dangerously unsustainable path and could become an environmental and economic disaster due to changing conditions and increasing vulnerabilities to its system of levees.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="text-align: auto; text-indent: -96px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 96px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 60px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The report’s six authors – who include experts in engineering, water policy, biology, geology, and economics – will be available to discuss the major findings of the report and answer any questions.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto; text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 24px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -84px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 84px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>WHO:</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Ellen Hanak </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">(</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><I>PPIC), </I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Jay Lund</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">, </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>William Fleenor</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">, </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Richard Howitt</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">, </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Jeffrey Mount</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">, </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Peter Moyle</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> (</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><I>University of California, Davis).</I></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto; text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 72px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 72px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.7px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -84px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 84px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>WHEN:</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Wednesday, February 7</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.0833px;"><B>th</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto; text-indent: -96px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 96px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -84px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 84px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>CALL-IN: </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B>Number: (888) 433-6571</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -84px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 84px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B> Conference Code: 6433001</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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