Opinion: California must realign its priorities for water usage
To achieve water stability and sustainability, the state must realign its priorities by putting people and communities over the profiteering industries that are driving the water and climate crisis. … Our water crisis is inextricably tied to climate change, which is ironically being driven by two industries very familiar to California: fossil fuels and industrial agriculture. The science is very clear: In order to stave off unthinkable climate chaos we must move off fossil fuels, and very quickly transition our economy to a near future of completely clean, renewable energy. … Yet just this year, under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s watch, the state has approved nearly 1,000 new fossil fuel extraction permits.
-Written by Chirag G. Bhaka, the California Director of Food & Water Watch.Related article: