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Our Water at Risk

• California has not made the necessary investments in its water infrastructure to keep up with its growing population. When the last reservoir was added to the statewide system in 1979, there were 23 million people in California; by 2020, California’s population will be over 42 million.

• There are signs that our climate is changing. Warmer winters mean more rain and less snow for the Sierras. More rain means less ‘natural’ water storage via snow pack and more runoff that needs to be stored as a resource – instead of losing it as runoff into the ocean.

• Two-thirds of Californians receive their water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a maze of waterways and levees that is currently facing environmental collapse. Moreover, a major earthquake or flood in the Delta could compromise the levee system and cut off water to 25 million Californians and 7 million acres of farmland for up to two years.
  

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