California Gov. Gavin Newsom released a plan Thursday to increase the state’s water supply, calling for more storage, recycling and desalination plants to help the state adapt to a “hotter, drier future.”
Standing outside a desalination project in Antioch, the governor outlined strategies in a 16-page document focused on accelerating infrastructure projects as opposed to hiking conservation targets, saying that he wants to tackle the issue “not just from a scarcity mindset.”
“I think so much of the … conversation here in the state has been about conservation, scarcity, but that’s a relatively small component of the strategy we are introducing today,” Mr.