http://kvpr.org en http://kvpr.org/post/rewritten-water-bond-include-less-money-storage <p></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5;">California Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg says lawmakers plan to rewrite the $11 billion water bond for the November 2014 ballot – and the new version will likely have less money for storage projects such as dams.</span></p><p class="p3">“There will continue to be a chapter for storage.&nbsp; I don’t think there will be nearly the same amount of money in that chapter as there was in the original bond.&nbsp; And I think there will be de-emphasis, frankly – or at least, on the same surface storage projects,” says Steinberg.&nbsp;</p> Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:40:24 +0000 Ben Adler 12500 at http://kvpr.org Rewritten Water Bond to Include Less Money for Storage http://kvpr.org/post/talk-revamping-water-bond-heat-2013 <p></p><p>There’s a push for a new look at the $11 billion water bond now scheduled for California’s November 2014 ballot.&nbsp; As Ben Adler reports from Sacramento, some lawmakers want to reduce the bond’s size, while others want to rewrite it entirely.</p><p>Democratic Senator Lois Wolk represents the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region – and she’s long felt the bond approved in 2009 was a bad piece of legislation.&nbsp; Now that it’s been pushed back a second time, Wolk has introduced a bill that would start over:</p> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:52:42 +0000 Ben Adler 8131 at http://kvpr.org Talk of Revamping Water Bond to Heat Up in 2013