'Newsom is correct to note that conservation alone will be insufficient,' writes the L.A. Times’ editorial board. 'But California still needs to reduce its water use, and to a greater degree than the governor has ordered or proposes in his supply plan.'
Newsom is correct to note that conservation alone will be insufficient. But California still needs to reduce its water use, and to a greater degree than the governor has ordered or proposes in his supply plan. His predecessor imposed the first-ever statewidein 2015. The current shortage is even more severe, yet Newsom demanded only voluntary cuts during the recent record-setting arid winter. Californians didn’t cut back, perhaps because the governor’s response seemed to downplay the emergency.
Newsom promotes water recycling, yet his 800,000 acre-foot annual target is actually a rollback from 20-year-old state goals. State funding is helping ambitious programs like the Metropolitan Water District’s recycling plant in Carson or the city of Los Angeles’ proposed conversion of the Hyperion treatment plant into a water purification and distribution complex, but not enough. The need is great, and immediate.
Nor will more dams, notwithstanding a handful of solid and cost-effective projects that should go forward. The water level at Lake Mead is already so low that states relying on the Colorado River had to accept unprecedented cuts to their supplies. California won’t be saved by building more reservoirs that we can’t fill.
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