Opinion: It’s time to fulfill the promise: Build Sites Reservoir
California is in a dire situation. Most of our state’s major reservoirs are precariously close to being effectively empty. We are less than two months away from the new water year when we start to replenish water supplies. Drought is to be expected in California. But are we as prepared as we could be? Were we ready for this year? We would be unquestionably better off if we had more storage capacity to save more water in advance of droughts. The proposed Sites Reservoir project would fill that role.
-Written by Jeffrey P. Sutton, general manager of the Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority.