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“Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown and U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a new $23.7 billion proposal that would build a twin tunnel system to carry water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta over to the southern part of the state.
Water in Southern California has become an intractable problem. The frustration was evident at the press conference, when Brown dropped a four-letter expletive.”
“‘Analysis paralysis is not why I came back 30 years later to handle some of the same issues,’ the 74-year-old former governor said. ‘At this stage, as I see many of my friends dying — I went to the funeral of my best friend a couple of weeks ago — I want to get s—- done.’
“The Democratic governor has been seeking a way to move water through or around the Delta since he was governor before. He persuaded the Legislature three decades ago to approve a peripheral canal, but the measure was defeated in a referendum in 1982.”
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