Government spending programs are signed to much fanfare, yet always seem
to fall short of their goals (or eventually succeed at multiples of the original cost estimates). Your humble blogger nevertheless hopes that the
infrastructure bill will produce some progress at improving California's water storage capacity. [bold added]
In California, where a historic drought has depleted reservoirs, state Sen. Melissa Hurtado said infrastructure money is needed to help fund new places to store snowmelt from the local mountains and to repair canals, levees and other methods of conveyance, which are crumbling or in other disrepair. Ms. Hurtado’s Central Valley district has been hit hard with water cutoffs to its big farming sector, and she said some small towns there face possible loss of drinking water due to the shortfall.
“If we don’t act now, it is going to be just catastrophic for mankind,” said Ms. Hurtado, a Democrat.
Maybe there's hope after all: a Democrat used the traditional "mankind" instead of "humankind", and she did not refer to "catastrophic" climate change but water shortages that everyone, global warmists or not, can do something about.
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