Items Tagged with 'drought and water resilience budget package'

Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday unveiled a budget plan for spending an estimated $68 billion surplus.

Prominent urban water districts have joined a Central Valley coalition in lobbying the Newsom administration for major infrastructure investments, while rice growers begin to tally the toll from fallowing and flood costs rise to $30 billion.

Sweeping cutbacks in water allocations to farms are leading to widespread underemployment in some of California’s most vulnerable communities.

The Water Blueprint for the San Joaquin Valley has offered Gov. Gavin Newsom a list of projects to fund in response to the deepening drought.