Proof of self sabotage
This year marks the 10th birthday of the voters approving the Sites Reservoir, an offstream reservoir in the northwestern Sacramento Valley. With an impoundment of 1.8 million acre feet, it would nominally provide water for 5.4 million people. The state has slow walked it. They do what the voters command when they are agree with the voters; otherwise they blow off the mandate of the people. Likewise a few years ago the voters handily approved retaining and streamlining the death penalty. Newsom simply announced that no one will be executed while he is governor