The world is radically changing.
It's changing in real time, economically, changing culturally, demographically.
The world is reorganizing and it's reorganizing around regions.
And I think that's the spirit from an economic development
and workforce development principle that has brought us quite literally
here and brought this plan to light.
And the first, first project that one under the framework
that was established under SB149 was sites.
And what could have taken quite literally and was intended
by those that oppose the site at sites, years and
years took only months because of that streamlining.
It worked.
We now want to expand that streamlining and this is
what you heard from Carla to groundwater replenishment as well.
You got to capture the extremes.
Had we captured the extremes last year between January and
March, just on the with a new delta tunnel, we
would have solved for a lot of problems in this
state.
But we didn't have the infrastructure.
So this is critical.
You got it got to change, modernize your conveyance.
You got to change and modernize your storage above and
below ground.
I'm a proud Democrat supporting a dam.
I'm also proud Democrat that supported the largest dam removal
in U.S.
history, the Klamath.
The world has changed back to the long winded dam.
Point about these fires in December.
You can't continue to do what you've done.
We've got to adapt.
Our regions need to adapt.
Our approach to economic development needs to adapt.
Our infrastructure also needs to adapt.
The world that was designed in the 1950s, the State
Water project doesn't exist anymore.
Hots are getting hotter, dries are getting drier, the wets
are getting a lot wetter.
You have simultaneous droughts and simultaneous rain bombs.
So we've got to capture flow and we've got a
store flow above and below ground.
And so, and all of this was around addressing numeric
goals.
And one of the numeric goals is 4.1 million acre
feet of groundwater and managing these extreme flows and getting
that water pumped in a responsible way and working with
local water agencies.
So we got, I think the Delta conveyance is the
most important climate adaptation project.
the United States of America doesn't even come close.
Nothing else comes close because nothing is more important because
this impacts 27,000,000 Californians.
So we've been working hard on this project the last
number of years.
And what more reminder of a major earthquake here and
the impact that would have devastating health and public safety
impact if we don't do something to secure that conveyance.
The status quo is simply not tenable.
And so we're doing everything in our power to move
that project forward as well.
And today is a critical day and a critical.
The Davises bought this property in 1857 and the same
people own it today.
So this is the 6th generation.
So it's the longest continually operated rice farm or farm
in Colusa County at least.
Maybe it's difficult.