WASHINGTON—On Thursday July 16, the House passed GOP-led legislation designed to bring more water to California’s farm belt amid a severe and lengthy drought.
Similar efforts have faltered in the last two congressional sessions after initially passing the House, and the White House and Democrats remai n opposed.
The four-year California drought has forced communities to cut water use. Some rural areas have been particularly hurt as the state’s water distribution systems curtailed the amount of water for agriculture.
The bill is designed to take more water out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta before it flows into the ocean and divert it to other uses.
