8 Affordable Water Solutions for California

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Year of Publication: 2015-2022

Publication City: Sacramento, CA

Publisher: Planning and Conservation League

PCL has stepped back from all the rhetoric in recent water wars to think about what common sense approaches can actually improve conditions. In our report, 8 Affordable Water Solutions (PDF) we outline eight common-sense approaches that can help solve California’s water problems without breaking the bank.

Three factors are driving California’s water crisis

  1. First, our fisheries are collapsing. Salmon, one of nature’s healthiest foods and a job generator, is endangered on all of our major rivers.
  2. Second, climate change is altering the amount and timing of snowmelt that feeds our reservoirs. This is reducing the reliability of the state’s largest water supply.
  3. Third, the fiscal meltdown is making old approaches impossible. With unemployment above 12 percent and a state budget deficit of over $20 billion, we cannot just keep asking taxpayers for more money to throw at these problems.

Eight Affordable Water Solutions for California

These practical proposals will go a long way to giving residents, businesses, farmers, and the environment a secure water future, and will generate good new jobs that we can afford:

Read more here and/or access the full report (or download it directly from the link above).

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