California lawmakers call for action on water bond
Citing the state’s growing water challenges, a group of 16 lawmakers called on legislative leaders last week to renew efforts to place a comprehensive water bond package on the November ballot.
In a May 16 letter to Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata and other leaders, the group said elected officials have an obligation to modernize the state’s current water infrastructure to ensure water supplies for future generations.
“The water crisis in California is growing appreciably worse as precious reserves dry up, court rulings further limit water distributions, jobs are lost and our aging infrastructure breaks down,” the letter said. “California’s vast diversity of individuals, industries and environments demands a forward thinking, legislative solution that invests in all our key and inter-related water needs such as conservation, water cleanup, recycling, groundwater recharge, conveyance and surface storage.”
