Water package: Sealing the deal

(From the Sacramento Bee) Just before midnight, he saw it falling apart. Months of delicate negotiations and hardball confrontations; of meticulously drafted legislation that was torn up as soon as the ink was dry, only to be rewritten; of interminable hours in closed-door meetings and impromptu hallway huddles.

A potentially monumental step toward easing a water crisis that had been decades in the making was close.  And yet an incongruous move by ardent environmentalists to kill a decidedly pro-environment bill was threatening to derail the entire package.

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