In 2019, abandoning plans for a two-tunnel Delta Fix, California Governor Gavin Newsom directed state water agencies to provide recommendations for a more holistic portfolio approach to addressing the state's worsening water challenges. Despite the unprecedented difficulties faced this year, water remains a top priority for the Newsom administration. TPR excerpts here California Secretary for Natural Resources, Wade Crowfoot, who writes for California Water Magazine on the task of ensuring the state's lifegiving water resources are clean, affordable, and sustainably utilized. Secretary Crowfoot outlines the Administration’s blueprint for equipping California to cope with more extreme droughts and floods, rising temperatures, declining fish populations, over-reliance on groundwater and other challenges.
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