By Elizabeth Zach, RCAC staff writer

The California Water Commission approved $2.7 billion to fund water storage projects across the state. Whether any will be built is another matter, however.

The plan is to award water bond funding based on strict guidelines that many of the projects may not meet. This would include, for example, the Temperance Flat Dam proposal on the upper San Joaquin River, and the Sites Reservoir in Northern California, which proponents want to expand into an off-stream reservoir to store water from the Sacramento River.

“We do not have the money lined up to do this project,” Jim Watson, general manager of the Sites Project Authority, told commission members

This new funding process is different from the traditional process whereby water project applicants could exert political influence to win funding. Moreover, Prop. 1 requires that the state can pay for no more than half of a storage project’s total cost.

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