California water projects remain stalled even though voters approved them in 2014

The Sites Reservoir is a prime example of California’s self-inflicted water woes. If anyone tells you that climate change is to blame for its drought conditions, you need only look at this non-existent reservoir — one of many water storage projects scheduled to receive some of the $7.5 billion from Proposition 1, which was approved by nearly two-thirds of voters in 2014.

Seven years on, not a single one of those projects has been built. The culprit is not climate change, but the state government’s lack of urgency in overcoming environmentalists’ objections and getting them done.