California's Infrastructure Crisis

Experts throughout California agree that, despite the current uproar over energy, other infrastructure crises facing the state will be much more problematic over the next few decades. The State of California, which ranks last in per capita infrastructure spending, will be facing an extreme decline in quality of life in the next 20 years due to exhausted water systems, insufficient transit systems, dilapidated public buildings, and cramped airports. In order to curb excessive growth, officials in the past halted spending on infrastructure. But as state population steadily increases to a projected 45 million by the year 2020, maintaining existing public infrastructure is going to be extremely difficult, experts say. If public buildings, roads and airports are not rehabilitated, the quality of life for all Californians will dwindle, they warn. Experts hope that new technology and other creative tactics may relieve California's infrastructure problems, but most agree that in the State's budget is where the true solution lies.

Thanks to California 2000 Project