Re: California’s unfulfilled promise on access to safe water Supplying residents and businesses with clean, affordable, high quality water is priority one for water districts and cities throughout California.
In Riverside and San Bernardino counties, water agencies and regional planners work to ensure customers have access to safe, clean and reliable water.
Through state-of-the-art treatment plants, around-the-clock testing and innovative technologies, regional water suppliers such as Eastern Municipal Water District, Western Municipal Water District, Riverside Public Utilities, and San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District provide our customers with the highest quality water available that exceeds all state standards.
As leaders in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, we have seen the issue of groundwater contamination firsthand.
Through long-term planning and investments, we have cleaned up local groundwater supplies where necessary, enhanced access to reliable groundwater and imported supplies, and continue to invest in the needs of our communities.
We will continue working together to deliver fresh, clean drinking water safely to you and your family, and plan for the needs of this growing region.
The solution will include governance reforms and consolidations of extremely small systems that are unable to achieve the economies of scale necessary to address contamination and treatment-related issues.
Water agencies, cities, and business organizations across the state have proposed a funding solution that does not impose a tax on urban water users and, when coupled with the governance reforms, establishes a sound process for repairing unusable drinking water systems.
This package of funds is an appropriate way to address this key social issue rather than taxing our water customers that have already invested in their local water systems.
These funds should be vetted as a viable solution along with a plan to help unusable drinking water systems become operational again.