Lawmaker: Bond to pay for updates for state’s water
The legislator who wrote a law modernizing California’s water infrastructure says there’s no concrete estimate for the cost to respond to worsening drought conditions. In a press conference held Friday at the San Luis Reservoir in western Merced County, Sen. Anna Caballero, D-Merced County, author of last year’s successful Senate Bill 72, said there is no way to know the cost of developing 9 million acre-feet of water by 2040. … Caballero added she’s proposing a bond that could pay for implementing much-needed updates to the state’s water plan. Meanwhile, certain water infrastructure projects in California have already cost billions of dollars.
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