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‘We’re dwindling like the salmon’: the Indigenous nations fighting for water rights

“There couldn’t be a more glaring example of systemic racism than that water rights – the senior ones – could only be planted by white people,” said Jon Rosenfield, a senior scientist at San Francisco Baykeeper. He and his organization have long fought for these regulations and have thrown their weight into the campaign.

‘We’re dwindling like the salmon’: the Indigenous nations fighting for water rights