The California State Water Resources Control Board is in the midst of a plan to spend roughly $1.3 billion over 10 years to save some 300 water systems throughout the state that are at risk of failing. (Photo by Joost Nelissen/Flickr)

An ambitious spending plan to shore up hundreds of failing and “at risk” California water systems won approval this week from a key state regulatory agency.

In a unanimous vote, the State Water Resources Control Board on Tuesday authorized a plan to spend up to $130 million in fiscal year 2020-21 through the newly created Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.