After the driest three years in the state’s modern history, California suddenly has a different problem on its hands: too much water
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“As you can see outside with some of the floods, it’s not that we don’t have water, it’s what are we doing with it when we get it,” Assemblymember Devon Mathis said in an interview. A man walks by the spillway at Nicasio Reservoir on Jan. 12, 2023, in Nicasio, Calif. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Democratic state lawmakers from farming regions hit hardest by drought also jumped on the opportunity last week to urge officials to divert and store more water rushing through the Delta region to the ocean before the storms end. But laws protecting an endangered species of fish limit the pumping.
But it will take years of rain and careful conservation to replenish depleted groundwater supplies after a longstanding drought, said Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, a research organization. Newsom previewed the challenge in his budget proposal last week, calling for an additional $200 million for flood protection. His plan avoided large cuts in drought funding despite a revenue shortfall.
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