California Voters Passed $7.5B Water Bond in 2014. Not a Single Water Storage Project Has Been Completed…

by amuse at X

FIRE: Eight years after California voters approved a $7.5 billion water bond to construct water storage facilities, not one project has reached completion. Meanwhile, untold millions of gallons of fresh snowmelt and rain continue to flow wastefully into the Pacific Ocean.

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— @amuse (@amuse) January 8, 2025

And then there is this most excellent side-by-side found in the comments of amuse’s post:

April, 2021. Gavin Newsom explains that wildfire preparedness will be better now that Biden is in office instead of Trump. pic.twitter.com/jTnSgagQsF

— MAZE (@mazemoore) January 8, 2025