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Sunday’s top of the scroll: Water package: Sealing the deal

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 29, 2009 at 8:25 am

state-capitol-front-2From the Sacramento Bee:

” Just before midnight, he saw it falling apart. Months of delicate negotiations and hardball confrontations; of meticulously drafted legislation that was torn up as soon as the ink was dry, only to be rewritten; of interminable hours in closed-door meetings and impromptu hallway huddles. A potentially monumental step toward easing a water crisis that had been decades in the making was close.

And yet an incongruous move by ardent environmentalists to kill a decidedly pro-environment bill was threatening to derail the entire package. “Incredible,” a frustrated Senate President Darrell Steinberg muttered to no one in particular from his desk near the back of the state Senate chambers. “Incredible.”

Wrestling with California’s water system is like working a Rubik’s Cube: As soon as a couple of sides are aligned, the others go out of whack. … “

Read more of this retrospective on the water legislation package from the Sacramento Bee by clicking here.

November 29, 2009 · Filed Under Water Legislation

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One Response to “Sunday’s top of the scroll: Water package: Sealing the deal”

  1. Wes Rolley on November 30th, 2009 9:12 am

    This reads more like a Darrell Steinberg campaign leaflet.

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