Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday reaffirmed his support for building Sites Reservoir, a proposed $4.5 billion project that would be the largest new reservoir constructed in California in 50 years, as a way for cities and farms to better prepare for droughts made worse by the warming climate. “We are going to continue to do everything we can to put the pressure on to get this project done,” Newsom said. “We are going to continue to advocate for federal resources,” he added. “Donald Trump, this is your kind of project.” Sites would be California’s eighth largest reservoir, a 13-mile-long off-stream lake that would divert flows from the Sacramento River during wet winters to provide water to 500,000 acres of Central Valley farmlands, and 24 million people, including residents of Santa Clara County, parts of the East Bay and Los Angeles.

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