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Ringside: How the Federal Government Can Massively Fund Water Supply Infrastructure

September 18, 2025 2:45 amSeptember 18, 2025 2:46 am

A few months ago I had the privilege of speaking directly with some of the top executives at one of California’s largest water agencies. Their primary question for me was explicit, and my attempts to answer were inadequate. They contend,...

Ringside: Time to Gut and Amend California’s Rogue Water Agencies

October 3, 2024 3:30 amOctober 3, 2024 3:31 am

In California today, we have given unelected state bureaucrats the power to make decisions that affect millions of people and cost billions of dollars, and there is almost no recourse. There is also very little public criticism of the decisions...

California Holds the Key to Western Water Security

May 9, 2023 9:00 amMay 9, 2023 9:01 am

Dams and aqueducts on the Colorado River make civilization possible in the American Southwest. But for the last 20 years, as a prolonged drought has gripped the region, withdrawals from the river have averaged 15 million acre-feet per year, while inflows into...

Questions About Water for Governor Newsom

August 24, 2022 3:30 amAugust 23, 2022 5:36 pm

Borrowing a page from the More Water Now campaign, which unsuccessfully attempted earlier this year to qualify a water funding initiative for the November 2022 ballot, Governor Newsom announced a new water supply strategy on August 11. Perhaps with the presidency in mind, or perhaps because...