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Governor Newsom’s August supplies.121 The state acknowledges that the value of 2022 Water Supply Strategy acknowledges that all water rights is greater than the average amount of the current water rights system is slow moving, water available.122 Developing reliable predictions for archaic, and not capable of adapting to our changing the supply of water available in the Delta is compli- climate.11. [...] The State Water Project uses the aqueduct to color.” The water district had signed a conditional, send water south to supply farmland and cities.163 The nonbinding agreement to buy desalinated water from Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Poseidon.156 has been a major advocate and funder of the project 164 The energy and monetary costs of the Huntington planning process. [...] Low Governor Newsom and the SWRCB should: water levels and warm temperatures are wreaking Declare using groundwater to grow almonds havoc on fisheries in the Klamath River Basin in and alfalfa in the southwest San Joaquin Valley southern Oregon and northern California and in the a “waste” and not a beneficial use, and stop Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.190 The C’waam and new almond and alfalfa plan. [...] foodandwaterwatch.org 16 Big Ag, Big Oil, and the California Water Crisis • Pass legislation through the State Legislature to • Prioritize locating and repairing leaky water pipes curtail groundwater pumping and protect the as the state’s water infrastructure continues to human right to water during the implementation of age. [...] Affordability, Transparency, Equity and Reliability (WATER) Act — to fully fund our water and waste- • Reject public subsidies for water projects that water systems, put water systems back in the support ocean desalination projects and the control of the public, help ensure water access wasteful water practices of Big Ag, and reject false and affordability, and restore the commitment of solutions.