State water board warns SAFER program funding could slip after Cap‑and‑Invest changes
The State Water Resources Control Board and LAO told the subcommittee that restructuring of cap‑and‑invest proceeds may move SAFER funding into a lower tier, creating timing uncertainty and reducing projected FY26‑27 proceeds to roughly $92 million in current governor materials.
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State Water Board Chair Joaquin Esquivel told the subcommittee the SAFE and Affordable Drinking Water (SAFER) program has delivered major results—helping reduce the number of Californians without safe drinking water from 1.6 million to roughly 600,000 through $1.8 billion in distributed grants—but that recent changes to the cap‑and‑invest (Cap‑and‑Invest) allocation tiers introduced uncertainty.
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