California doesn’t have a water scarcity problem. It has a distribution problem, according to Nícola Ulibarrí. … In a report commissioned by UC Berkeley’s Possibility Lab, Ulibarrí argues that California’s existing water infrastructure already collects enough water to sustain all state residents. The real crisis, says the UC Irvine associate professor of urban planning and public policy, is that thousands of Californians remain disconnected from that abundant supply. … Thousands of households, particularly in rural areas, remain unconnected to the state’s large-scale water infrastructure system. These residents depend on groundwater wells. … Nearly a million California residents who are connected to the water system receive water that fails to meet federal Safe Drinking Water Act standards.

Other water management news:

• Gold Mountain California News (Auburn, Calif.): Shaping Lincoln’s water future
• The Sacramento Bee (Calif.): Opinion: Folsom depends on a single 48-inch pipe for its water. Time to diversify
• Record Gazette (Yucaipa, Calif.): Opinion: When storms hit, water planning determines​