California lawmakers propose to spend $9 billion to improve water supply
State lawmakers haven’t agreed on how to improve California's water supply. But Wednesday they agreed on how much that effort will cost. They say a little more than $9 billion ought to do it.
Republicans and Democrats introduced dueling bills that would pay to fix California's ailing water infrastructure.
Lawmakers from both parties propose roughly $9.4 billion in general obligation bonds to pay for improvements. Those bonds would go onto next November's general election ballot.
Three kinds of projects would get the money: projects to improve the state's main water supply in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, dams and reservoirs and other water storage, and local projects to cope with drought. Republicans and Democrats still disagree on how the state would distribute that money between urban and rural projects.
Republicans still oppose some of the changes Democrats have proposed to the ways the state manages its water supply, including a 20 percent conservation target for urban users, mandating ground water monitoring, and cracking down on water theft.
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