$7.5 billion water bond bypassing Delta controversies heads to California voters
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fresno Bee] By Jeremy B. White - August 15, 2014 -
California voters will be asked to authorize $7.5 billion to bolster the state’s water supply, infrastructure and ecosystems in November, as lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday struck a long-sought deal to move a new water bond to the ballot.
A key point of dispute involved Brown’s highly contentious plan to drill two massive water tunnels beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, allowing water to flow to farms and cities in southern California without passing through the Delta’s precarious ecosystem.
Democratic leadership and environmentalists insisted that any bond be “tunnel neutral,” carefully crafted so it did not pay for environmental mitigation required for Brown’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan.
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