Wednesday Top of the Scroll: ‘It’s an injustice’: Shrinking state funds could slow fixes for Californians with toxic water
In a neighborhood flanked by grapevines and orange groves on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley, people cannot drink the water from their faucets because it’s contaminated. Residents in the area north of Porterville, many of them farmworkers, have been discussing a solution, which they expect will require running pipes to connect to the nearby city system. But the clean water program that has been one of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s major initiatives, bringing solutions like these, is significantly cut in his latest proposed budget. … Newsom’s latest proposed budget estimates that the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund will provide about half of what it provided last year for the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund — $68 million compared with $130 million.
Other drinking water news:
- Straight Arrow News: Millions of Americans lack clean tap water. Can the US close the gap by 2040?
