California Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla introduced a pair of bills aimed at increasing water supplies for his home state and the drought-stricken West — via recycling as well as new projects to better use water on farmland.
Padilla, a member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, on Wednesday introduced the “Making Our Communities Resilient Through Enhancing Water for Agriculture, Technology, the Environment and Residences (MORE WATER) Act.“
He also offered the “Growing Resilient Operations From Water Saving and Municipal-Agricultural Reciprocally Beneficial Transactions (GROW SMART) Act.”
The bills are a bid to reduce a drinking water deficit that the California Department of Water Resources said will reach 6 million acre-feet annually by 2040. An acre-foot of water is about 326,000 gallons, or enough to support two to three families for a year.
