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MAR 28, 2015
Where to Store Water? Above Ground
or Below Ground?
BB&K Attorney and California Water Commission Chair Joseph Byrne Joins the Conversation on
Water in the Sacramento Bee
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By Joe Byrne
Last year, with support from more than two­thirds of the voters, Californians
passed Proposition 1, the state water bond. This far­reaching measure
Joseph P. Byrne
allocated $2.7 billion for water storage projects to improve California’s water
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system and its natural environment to better prepare us for future devastating
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droughts, like the one we are experiencing now.
The California Water Commission has been entrusted with this investment to
help meet the state’s water needs in the future and takes this charge from voters
with utmost seriousness. We have already launched a public engagement
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process to help the commission as it develops the grant program, called the
Environmental Law & Natural
Water Storage Investment Program.
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