Opinion Kuyler Crocker 300 California Communities Have Contaminated Water Too often, residents who help produce our food can’t drink their own local water without getting sick fearing serious illness.
In roughly 300 communities across the state, contaminated water has forced schools to turn off faucets and residents to buy bottled water for drinking, cooking and washing.
Solutions would be quickly forthcoming, regardless of the cost.
Residents Pay Utility Bills & Still Must Buy Bottled Water Even without access to clean water from the tap, customers still pay their monthly utility bill.
Some families in these communities pay up to 10 percent of their income for water when one accounts for both monthly bills and purchased water.
The creation of a Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund would secure an ongoing funding source that would allow smaller systems to deliver clean, safe and affordable water to customers, no matter their location or size.
Jerry Brown then gave the effort a boost earlier this year by allocating $5 million for startup funds in his state budget proposal and making a commitment to introduce a trailer bill.
Every water system in California would soon deliver clean, safe and affordable drinking water to consumers.
They are determined to work together to make the universal right of safe drinking water a reality in every California community.
At the state Capitol in Sacramento, a bipartisan alignment of legislators has been working to make the fund a reality.