Schwarzenegger said.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nCalifornia legislators have revived a $10 billion bond package to build new dams, fund conservation programs, and build plants to recycle waste water and recharge aquifers. Dam and canal projects, however, are particularly contentious. Last year, the Governor and Senator Dianne Feinstein put forth a proposal to build a series of dams and a peripheral canal; it received much criticism from environmentalists, who believe that such projects would destroy collapsing populations of local fish by diverting badly needed freshwater flows to subsidized agribusiness.<\/p>\n
California produces more than half the nation’s fruits, vegetables and nuts. However, much of this could be lost this year as the main federal source of irrigation water runs dry, and state water project supplies wane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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