Governor Newsom Releases Final Water Resilience Portfolio
This afternoon, Governor Gavin Newsom released a final version of the Water Resilience Portfolio, “the Administration’s blueprint for equipping California to cope with more extreme droughts and floods, rising temperatures, declining fish populations, over-reliance on groundwater and other challenges.”
The portfolio includes 142 state actions to secure a “climate-resilient water system in the face of climate change.” The following is a list of priorities the state will focus on:
- Implementing the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Act of 2019
- Supporting local communities to successfully implement the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014
- Achieving voluntary agreements to increase flows and improve conditions for native fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and its watersheds
- Modernizing the Delta water conveyance system to protect long-term functionality of the State Water Project
- Updating regulations to expand water recycling
- Accelerating permitting of new smart water storage
- Expanding seasonal floodplains for fish and flood benefits
- Improving conditions at the Salton Sea
- Removing dams from the Klamath River
- Better leveraging of information and data to improve water management
The press release can be found here. To read the complete California Water Resilience Portfolio, click here. View Update