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A state senate committee is set to vote on a bill today that would address safe and affordable drinking water throughout California, a goal Governor Gavin Newsom has also prioritized in his proposed budget. Still to be decided is how to fund it. Newsom has proposed taxing residential water users a dollar a month, and establishing “Safe Drinking Water Fees” for dairies, fertilizer users, and other animal farmers. Some water contaminants can be traced to agriculture and pesticide use, like nitrates and 1,2,3-TCP. But some contaminants are naturally occurring, like arsenic. “I think agriculture sometimes is easy to blame for all the problems because there’s not a lot of us,” says Joey Airoso, a fourth generation dairy farmer from Tulare County. Airoso doesn’t usually support taxes, but he does think clean drinking water should be available to Californians. These taxes could go into effect if Newsom’s budget passes in its current form in June. Senate Bill 200, which is being heard today,
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