Water, water, water. So important to California, to everybody, but especially California. The Department of Reclamation, according to reports, has lost 1,400 public servants, approximately 25% of the agency's entire workforce. In the Bureau of Reclamation's regional office in Sacramento, there used to be 50 staff handling financial issues alone, and now there's only 12. This is the staff that works to approve contracts, grants, agreements, et cetera. Yet the Bureau of California's Bureau of Reclamation's California office has cut its staff responsible for these aspects of water infrastructure by nearly 80%. (03:48–03:57)
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Asserts that the Bureau of Reclamation's Sacramento office reduced financial staff from 50 to 12.
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