Opinion: Water bonds failed bone-dry California. A 2022 initiative offers a different path
Over the past decades there have been many “Water” initiatives or propositions presented to California’s voters. Some of them have included such wet provisions as funding for large public soccer field complexes and most of them had more to do with conservation and urban needs than increased storage and infrastructure. They also relied heavily on bonds to fund themselves. Two recent water propositions have brought and dashed hope for Valley water needs: 2014’s Prop. 1 and 2018’s Prop. 3.
-Written by Don Wright, a contributor to The San Joaquin Valley Sun and the publisher of WaterWrights.net.