Blog: Dollars and drought – Windfalls for innovation or entrenchment?
California’s Governor Newsom recently declared a drought emergency throughout much of California and announced over $5 billion in new water program investments. These twin emergency and funding announcements are a classic “bad-news creates good news story” (and potentially vice versa) for California’s water problems. They are opportunities for innovation and making long-term improvements for California’s water problems. They also can reward and entrench less effective programs and approaches.