More Water Now represents a growing coalition that brings together Californians from all backgrounds, united by a single goal: Let’s overcome droughts and climate change by investing in a 21st century water infrastructure.
Our initial solution was The Water Infrastructure Funding Act of 2022, a citizens initiative that would have funded long-overdue water projects throughout California. We worked to qualify this initiative for the November 2022 ballot, but we could not gather the required signatures.
Please note this website still has pages to mobilize volunteers and provide them resources. These pages are now inactive, but will be reactivated when a new campaign begins. To that end, you are still encouraged to fill out our volunteer page, and contact us with your ideas.
We are looking ahead to November 2024. Please consider being part of a bigger and more powerful coalition. Let’s build new water infrastructure in years instead of decades, and end water scarcity in California forever.
From California’s vast tracts of irrigated farmland that feed the world, to the tens of millions of Californians that have built an economy that is the envy of the world, it is time to upgrade California’s water system to create sustainable, abundant water.
When water is abundant, everyone wins. Urban customers and farmers have plenty of water even in dry years, with plenty of additional water to preserve and improve California’s precious ecosystems.
Nearly 40 million people now live in California, but the system of reservoirs and aqueducts necessary to supply California’s farms and cities are designed for a state with only 20 million people. Tremendous progress has been made over the years in conserving water. Our farmers and households now use water far more efficiently than in past decades. But when confronting climate change, or just a prolonged drought, there simply isn’t enough capacity left in California’s water system.
There isn’t any one solution to water scarcity in California, and it’s time to think big. The ballot initiative we intend to begin circulating later this year is designed to solve California’s water supply challenges by rebuilding and expanding California’s water system. All of it. Everywhere.
Specifically, the initiative calls for two percent of the state’s general fund – that’s currently about $3.5 billion per year – to be allocated to projects that increase California’s water supply. The initiative also permits up to half of those funds to be used to finance large water supply projects immediately. Tens of billions of dollars will become available. This two percent funding solution will continue until new completed projects add another five million acre feet per year of water supply to California’s farms and cities.
We would like to collect signatures from one million registered voters in California to sign a petition to place a new initiative on the November 2024 ballot. Will you join us?
More Water Now represents a growing coalition that brings together Californians from all backgrounds, united by a single goal: Let’s overcome droughts and climate change by investing in a 21st century water infrastructure.
Our solution? The Water Infrastructure Funding Act of 2022, a citizens initiative that will fund long-overdue water projects throughout California.
From California’s vast tracts of irrigated farmland that feed the world, to the tens of millions of Californians that have built an economy that is the envy of the world, it is time to upgrade California’s water system to create sustainable, abundant water.
When water is abundant, everyone wins. Urban customers and farmers have plenty of water even in dry years, with plenty of additional water to preserve and improve California’s precious ecosystems.
Nearly 40 million people now live in California, but the system of reservoirs and aqueducts necessary to supply California’s farms and cities are designed for a state with only 20 million people. Tremendous progress has been made over the years in conserving water. Our farmers and households now use water far more efficiently than in past decades. But when confronting climate change, or just a prolonged drought, there simply isn’t enough capacity left in California’s water system.
There isn’t any one solution to water scarcity in California, and it’s time to think big. The ballot initiative we intend to begin circulating later this year is designed to solve California’s water supply challenges by rebuilding and expanding California’s water system. All of it. Everywhere.
Specifically, the initiative calls for two percent of the state’s general fund – that’s currently about $3.5 billion per year – to be allocated to projects that increase California’s water supply. The initiative also permits up to half of those funds to be used to finance large water supply projects immediately. Tens of billions of dollars will become available. This two percent funding solution will continue until new completed projects add another five million acre feet per year of water supply to California’s farms and cities.
We are looking for one million registered voters in California to sign a petition to place this initiative on the November 2022 ballot. Will you join us?
Between November 2021 and April 2022 we intend to collect 997,139 signatures on a petition to place the “Water Infrastructure Funding Act of 2022” on the November 2022 ballot.
Once the initiative is qualified for the November 2022 ballot, we intend to wage a grassroots campaign to convince voters to vote YES, to bring More Water Now to all Californians.
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