California’s existing groundwater infrastructure may fail to quench the state’s thirst in an increasingly arid future, even as officials celebrate widespread conservation achievements, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) warned on Tuesday.
“The data doesn’t lie, and it is telling us that our water system is unprepared for California’s hotter and drier climate,” Newsom said in a statement.
The governor was referring to data published in a semi-annual report by the California Department of Water Resources that morning. The report, which indicated that California is now collecting more groundwater data than ever before, showed a 2.2 million acre-foot increase in storage last year…