Don Cameron went all in on a trickle-down survival tactic. It could help save America’s agricultural heartland—even if he doesn’t survive the new water war.
Awash in precious snow and water that will help meet the demands of the state’s 40 million residents, wet winter also means more fuel for fires when heat and dryness set in.
Southern California’s biggest water agency voted Tuesday to shoulder most of the cost of replumbing the troubled center of the state’s vast waterworks, committing nearly $11 billion to the construction of two massive water tunnels.
Across California, droughts, floods and fires are straining the state’s aging infrastructure. Jamesine Gibson of the Union of Concerned Scientists says the state needs to prepare infrastructure for the uncertain impacts of climate change.
