Senator Anna M. Caballero (D-Merced) introduced SB 72, California Water for All, to modernize the California Water Plan to drought proof California and establish long-term water supply targets. This legislation addresses the state’s intensifying climate challenges and ensures high-quality water for urban, agricultural and environmental needs. … For over 20 years, California’s Water Plan—mandated by Water Code Section 10005(a)—has remained unchanged, despite the state’s growing population and the devastating impacts of extreme weather events, including prolonged droughts, destructive floods and declining groundwater reserves. Recent studies project a future water supply shortfall without state intervention of 4.6 to 9 million acre-feet annually by 2050. This shortfall represents up to 90% of California’s urban water use or the irrigation of 3 million acres of farmland.   SB 72 aims to close this gap …