WHAT IT DOES: Authorizes $7.5 billion for water storage, and treatment and conservation projects; includes $7.1 billion in new borrowing. Also provides money for habitat restoration and about $300 million for regional conservancies that primarily preserve land for recreation or wildlife habitat.
WHO SUPPORTS IT: Gov. Jerry Brown and near unanimous majorities of Democrats and Republicans in the state Legislature; U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer; a long list of agricultural, business and conservation groups, including the California Farm Bureau Federation and the Audubon Society.
WHO OPPOSES IT: Regional groups, mostly in Northern California, that represent delta farmers or sport fishing interests.
CAMPAIGN SPENDING: The primary committee by Gov. Jerry Brown supporting the rainy day fund and water bond measures has raised nearly $1.7 million through Sept. 23. That’s on top of $2.8 million the committee already had available from supporting Brown’s Prop 30 temporary tax increase measure in 2012. The groups opposing it have raised $50,000 through the same period.
