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California Watch blog: California’s water is “oversubscribed”

Posted by: Maven on January 9, 2010 at 8:25 am

From the California Watch blog:

“In November, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his allies will ask voters to sign off on the “Clean Water Supply Act of 2010,” the legislative compromise reached last year during California’s third summer of crippling drought.

Proponents say the $11.4 billion bond measure will pay to build new dams, repair the state’s brittle water-delivery infrastructure, and restore the collapsing aquatic ecosystem of the San Francisco-Sacramento River Delta.

But the ballot measure won’t make it rain. And water bond or no, some environmentalists say continued conflict over this scarce resource is guaranteed, because water from California’s two great irrigation projects – the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project – are contractually “oversubscribed.” … “

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January 9, 2010 · Filed Under General Water Issues

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