The California Water Commission has released their strategic plan for the next five years on how they will work to ensure California’s water supply as drought continues and climate change takes its toll on the state. The plan reads:
“It is well known that water in California is a complicated, thorny issue. As California’s climate gets hotter and its weather more extreme, water issues could become more fraught and contentious.”
Additionally, a recent survey from the Public Policy Institute of California found that climate change is the most important environmental issue to Californians with 82% being concerned that climate change will cause a drought. However, very few think that the government can properly handle California’s water woes.
The plan outlines the Commission’s goals for the next five years – continue to operate as the administrator of the Water Storage Investment Program, focus on historically disenfranchised perspectives when engaging communities on projects, use its public forum to hold discussions on complicated water issues, enhance its advisory role to director of the Department of Water Resources and continue to report on the State Water Project.
