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‘I Cannot Sleep Well’ – Governor Newsom On Unsafe Drinking Water During Visit To Parlier

Governor Gavin Newsom signed his first pieces of legislation into law on Wednesday, and he chose to sign them at a school where the water contains a carcinogen and kids can’t even use the drinking fountains. Newsom opened his visit in a history classroom, introducing the bills to a room full of students at Riverview Elementary School in the Fresno County City of Parlier. “Shall we sign?” he asked, crouching down before the front row with a pen. “Yes,” they shouted, raising their hands excitedly. The laws pull $ 131 million out of the general fund for several projects, including emergency preparedness, as well as bottled water and other urgent needs for communities with unsafe drinking water. In the longer term, Newsom also committed to the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund, a pot of money for water projects that had failed to pass under former Governor Jerry Brown’s administration. Newsom, however, allocated almost $ 5 million to the fund in the preliminary budget he introduced
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