California Lawmakers Overhauling $11 Billion Water Bond
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California lawmakers are racing a deadline to overhaul an $11 billion bond program to upgrade aqueducts, reservoirs and pipelines, some almost a century old, under pressure from a third year of severe drought.
Polls show the water bond now on the November ballot, left over from the administration of Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009, would fail because of its size and politically-based provisions. Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, remains quiet on what he’s willing to support.