A Reliable Water Supply

CBIA is part of a broad-based coalition working to gain support – at the Capitol and on Main Street – for building facilities that provide Californians with a secure and reliable supply of water. This coalition effort to place a water storage bond on the November, 2008 statewide ballot, is part of CBIA’s support for a comprehensive water supply policy that includes surface storage projects – such as construction of Sites and Temperance Flat reservoirs in the Central Valley and expansion of Los Vaqueros reservoir near Livermore – as well as groundwater storage and conjunctive use projects, such as those in the Central Valley or the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority. 

The policy also includes water recycling measures as well as those that serve to increase water conservation. Finally, CBIA’s water supply policy supports efforts to the transfer of water from one region of California.  Indeed, what needs to accompany the complaints about water supplies being “in the wrong places” – far from where their need is greatest – is a more secure and reliable means of conveying water from Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville to the state and federal pumps in the southern Delta. That way, the promise of the Central Valley Project delivering water south – serving agriculture as well as the thirsty households in the Southland – can be realized.