Opinion: What will happen if Lake Mead dries up? Look to the Salton Sea. [Opinion]
New storage reservoirs throughout the state could provide more water to the parched southern areas, especially through drought years, and help reduce water importation from the overdrawn Colorado River.
In 2014, Californians voted to do just that with the passage of Proposition 1 — the Water Quality, Supply and Infrastructure Improvement Act. $7.5 billion was borrowed by the state to construct half-a-dozen water storage projects. Eight years later, nothing has been built. In March, with the current drought raging, $2.
The reservoir would hold enough water to supply about 3 million households for one year — although much of the water would be for agricultural purposes. It seems a shame that $9 billion of the nearly $100 billion California budget surplus can be handed out as shortsighted “inflation relief” when real solutions to long-term problems could be funded — without any public debt at all.
I can only surmise there is no short-term political gain on long-term, meaningful projects for those politicians handing out the cash.
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