DELIVER WATER TO FARMERS

California needs to build more water storage!

California needs to stop releasing needed water into the rivers and ocean without taking into account the concern of famers and local citizens.

Over the past 40 years, California has not completed a major water storage project of statewide significance despite the state’s population nearly doubling.

California depends on winter storms to refill its reservoirs and produce a strong snowpack, which serve as essential water savings accounts relied on through the rest of the year.

David Fennell agrees with rancher and State Senator Jim Nelson when he states, “Without substantial new investments and commitments to capture, store and move water throughout the state, whole communities will be subject to water scarcity and farmers will be unable to produce adequate food supplies, threatening food and national security.”

The Lieutenant Governor serves on, and rotates with the State Controller, as chair of the three-member State Lands Commission, which oversees the control and leasing of millions of acres of state-owned land, including offshore oil resources, as well as use and permitting for all navigable waterways in California.

The Commission also manages state land-use planning and revenues, and related interstate issues. During alternate years, the Lieutenant Governor serves as Chairperson of the State Lands Commission. The California State Lands Commission (CSLC) was created by the California Legislature in 1938 and given the authority and responsibility to manage certain public lands within the state.

California Lieutenant Governor also sits on the Emergency Council and this combined with his role on the California State Lands Commission (CSLC) and Oceanic Institute gives him a unique position to influence the building of new water storage and the prevention of needed water from being released into the Ocean.

According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the state produces almost half of all the fruits, nuts and vegetables grown in the country, as well as a critical share of the livestock and dairy.

The California population has grown from 19 million in 1969 when David Fennell first arrived in California as an infant to almost 40 million today.

Yet in his life time not only has no new water storage been developed there seems to be little concern for the impact it has had on the 800,000+ individuals who work in our California Agricultural industry.

David Fennell grew up in the farming town of Half Moon Bay and his grandparents who recently passed away at 101 years after 78 years of marriage were farmers, and died on their farm which is still in the Fennell family.

As your Lieutenant Governor David Fennell will show his deep care and background for our agricultural industry and will make sure that farmers get new water storage.