Metropolitan Re-Do on California WaterFix Vote Provides Necessary Funding to Move Project Forward
Originally published in Journal of Water, Spring 2018
On July 10th, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (“Metropolitan”) Board of Directors authorized the district to fund up to 64.6% of the total project costs for California WaterFix. The project, which proposes to construct two tunnels deep underground to convey water under, rather than through, the Delta, would cost $16.7 billion—so M…