Opinion: Here is a plan to create more water for California
Re “California should create more water – much more“; Commentary, Oct. 28, 2021 There is an answer to Jim Wunderman’s position that “state and federal governments should commit to creating 1.75 million acre feet – about 25% of California’s current urban water use – of new water from desalination and wastewater recycling by the end of this decade”: the Water Infrastructure Funding Act of 2022, a constitutional initiative proposed for the November 2022 state ballot.
-Written by Shawn Dewane, vice president of the Mesa Water District; Edward Ring, co-founder of the California Policy Center; Stephen Sheldon, president of the Orange County Water District; Geoffrey Vanden Heuvel, director of regulatory and economic affairs for the California Milk Producers Council; Wayne Western Jr., board director of the California Farm Water Coalition.