Major water bond is headed...

Major water bond is headed for California's ballot: "With more dams and more miles of aqueduct than most of the world's countries, California is a monument to the manipulation of waterways. Two-thirds of its 34 million people live where only one-third of its precipitation falls, and so it sends artificial rivers over mountain ranges, irrigates the desert, and transports mountain snowmelt to seaside resorts through a vast network of concrete channels and pipelines. Although many of these huge dams and aqueducts were built for Californians by the U.S. government, a gift it has bestowed on many states in the semi-arid West, many were also built by the state itself, generally financed by issuance of taxpayer-approved government bonds. Such water bonds are as familiar as summer reruns to California voters, who have considered at least 16 of them on statewide ballots since 1960 - the year voters narrowly gave Gov. Pat Brown the go-ahead to spend $1.75 billion to build the State Water Project."