Of all the ground Governor Gavin Newsom covered in his first week in office, he already appears to be showing a commitment to improving the state’s drinking water. On Friday, Governor Newsom took a road trip to Monterey Park Tract, an unincorporated community in Stanislaus County. There, he and his entourage heard concerns from residents about their drinking water, which they pipe in from the nearby city of Ceres and is known to contain a carcinogen known as 1,2,3-TCP. Jessi Snyder of the non-profit Self-Help Enterprises says she was impressed with how intently Newsom listened. “I love that he had his entire cabinet there,” she says. “It was so amazing to see all of them filling up the room.” This followed a day after the new governor had introduced a preliminary state budget, in which he proposed creating a fund to help communities access safe and affordable drinking water. “As of Friday, I think he’d been four days in office,” Snyder says. “Those are two really strong signs of
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