New storage reservoirs need to be built to capture water and to meet existing upstream needs before larger pipes are constructed to take the water away. This new plan proposes several new storage options. Most of them result in very expensive water. But more importantly the emphasis is on more storage and not more yield. In effect, they want to buy more water cups and pour the water from one into the other, but they aren't planning on developing much new water to put into the cups.
Flexibility only goes so far.
What we see are more ideas but no solutions for the hard questions. It appears to be a continuation of the last six years of process over substance. Now it looks like the Administration has come up with another four year process that we are supposed to have confidence in. This Administration doesn't have a good track record and this plan is seeking to spend billions of dollars in the first phase alone. In addition, Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt is expected to reduce CVP yield by an additional 200,000 acre-feet through his Trinity flow decision.