Does California ‘Have the Same Water Infrastructure’ as It Did in the 1960s?
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U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein said California has “the same water infrastructure from when we were 16 million people.”
Large portions of the state’s modern-day water system, including the State Water Project and Central Valley Project were built in the 1960s, when California reached the 16 million population mark.
Some pieces of those systems, which continue to provide water to California’s cities and farms, were completed in the 1970s.
In more recent decades, water districts have constructed significant storage reservoirs, plus a large desalination plant, to supplement regional supplies.
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