Days after lawmakers agreed to ask voters for $11.1 billion in debt for water projects, the state had to pay more than expected to sell its most recent bond issue…As a result, millions of dollars more of the state’s dangerously depleted revenues will go to debt service and less to schools, health care, social services, [...]
Gaming the water system

By Mike Taugher Staff Writer Posted: 05/25/2009 05:31:15 AM PDT Updated: 09/03/2009 11:22:02 AM PDT http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_12443070 Chinese water resource officials peer down an access tunnel while on a tour Jan. 6, 2009 of the… Just before Interstate 5 climbs the Grapevine out of the San Joaquin Valley is a massive underground reservoir that [...]