Republican lawmakers are blaming Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) for California’s water infrastructure mess that floods during rainstorms and sucks farmers dry during the rest of the drought-infused years.
Recent rainstorms that have destroyed coastal towns, killed 22 people, and caused the collapse of interstate highways could have been mitigated if dozens of state and federal bills over the past decade had passed to build reservoirs, levees, and improve the state’s complex pumping system, officials told the Washington Examiner.
Allowing excess water from these storms to flow out into the ocean and be wasted is nothing short of irresponsible. Republicans have solutions and support capturing this water to ease the pain of drought. pic.twitter.com/qeAomL9jF6 On Jan. 19, Newsom wrote on his website that he was aggressively pushing for better water infrastructure. Farmers, meanwhile, have seen their crop sizes shrivel each year thanks to the decadelong drought. They watch as 1.2 billion gallons of water per day are flushed into a Northern California delta that leads to the Pacific Ocean — all to regulate water temperature for a trout population living there.
“If they had an eye toward this mess, we wouldn’t be in this rut,” said Rep. Doug LaMalfa . “They pissed away so much water in two years. They didn’t have a mind for conserving because the environment trumps everything. It’s dubious that all this environmental water helps the fish.”
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