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Opinion - State Columnists - State Columnist: Dan Walters
Sunday, Oct. 04, 2009
Dan Walters: California water deal very close? Perhaps not
By Dan Walters - dwalters@sacbee.com 
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tool goes here Last week, in response to a reporter's question, Arnold 
Schwarzenegger said he and legislators are so close to a historic deal on 
California's water crisis that it could be done in just a few hours.
Superficially, that appears to be true. A multiyear drought, a federal judge's 
crackdown on pumping water out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect 
fish, national media attention on San Joaquin Valley farmers, and pressure from 
the governor and even the White House have created more political activity on 
water than we've seen in three decades.
"Everyone agrees that we are close and that we have made a decade's worth of 
progress in just a few weeks," Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg of 
Sacramento said after deciding not to move a package of water legislation 
shortly before midnight on Sept. 11. 
Call The Bee's Dan Walters, (916) 321-1195. Back columns, 
www.sacbee.com/walters.
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