A former water utility director said the California and federal government are to blame for the state’s water shortage issues, since the state’s infrastructure has not kept up with demand.
“The State of California and the Feds are largely responsible, because we have not continued with the building of our water infrastructure,” said Brett Barbre, former director of the Municipal Water District of Orange County, during an interview with EpochTV’s “California Insider” program.
Barbre said that the major dams and reservoirs that serve Californians were largely built in the last century.
“If you look at our infrastructure, major facilities, the last major reservoir was built by metropolitan in Southern California 1999. … We really have not kept up with the population growth,” he said in the interview….