California’s Can’t-Miss Chance to Provide Safe Drinking Water for All

Photo: A sign outside the Lafayette Reservoir in Lafayette, California. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

State legislators have until the end of the month [August 2018, —Ed.] to pass the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund. There is an urgent need to provide clean drinking water to the 1 million Californians who lack access to such supplies, says Kirsten James of Ceres.

The clock is ticking to ensure clean drinking water is available to all in California. Legislators have just five days to help an estimated 1 million Californians access safe and affordable drinking water from their faucets.

In the world’s fifth-largest economy, there should be no question about voting “yes” for the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund (SB 844 and SB 845). Stories we’ve heard from around the state make the need all the more compelling.

Ceres and many of our company partners have strongly supported the creation of a Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund in California. Some employees, some customers and some of their supply-chain farmers may very well reside in the communities facing clean water shortages.

Those communities number more than 300, according to the State Water Resources Control Board, and as many as 360,000 to 1 million people are […]

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