State's water-crisis approach all wet

Date Published: Nov 09,2009

The good news is the state Legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reached an historic agreement to solve California's largely self-imposed water crisis. The bad news is they want Californians to pay a lot for it over a long period of time. And even if voters reject the $11.1 billion price tag, they still will be stuck with a host of new regulations, including a mandatory 20 percent reduction in water use by 2020.