Growing Populations, Shrinking Water Supplies and Broken Budgets
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As California's population grows, its infrastructure disintegrates and state deficit balloons, voters, who will make the ultimate decision in November 2010, are questioning the need for the recent $11 billion bond recently passed by the legislature and Governor for upgrades to California's antiquated water system. On Town Hall Journal, Jeffrey Kightlinger, General Manager and CEO of The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, sounds the alarm on the need for conservation, recycling, reclamation and desalination as means to stave off the effects of eight years of drought. The Vault segment goes back to 1978 when former Governor Edmund Pat Brown whose son, Jerry, was then Governor, argues the need for a peripheral canal to preserve the Delta and make California less dependent on other states for water. If you're concerned about increasing water bills and busted water pipes, you won't want to miss this Town Hall Journal.
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