Monday February 9, 2026
The Sacramento Bee —
The Sierra Club California has raised concerns about one of the two new water bills introduced by U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, warning that “loopholes” in the current language could allow federal funding to be steered toward large water conveyance projects the group opposes, including California’s controversial Delta tunnel.
The MORE WATER Act, which Padilla unveiled in a news release on Wednesday, would reauthorize federal funding for large-scale water recycling projects and create a new Water Conveyance Improvement Program to benefit existing water conveyance infrastructure across the West.