Gavin Newsom: “SB72 [was codified] creating numeric goals for the first…”

“Localism and water policy is determinative. And we laid that strategy out in a way that the legislature finally came on board and enthusiastically embraced it and codified it with SB72 [was codified] creating numeric goals for the first time. 2023. We all remember it, some of you more than others. A lake reemerges, some old enough to remember the last time. Tulare Lake. All those deaths related to those floods.” (14:40–14:46)

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