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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
font-weight:normal'>Pass law to cut delta water use, panel says</span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=byline1><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><a
href="mailto:kzito@sfchronicle.com"><span style='color:#015660;text-decoration:
none'>Kelly Zito, Chronicle Staff Writer</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=date1><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Thursday, November 27, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Over the next two
years, California should pass laws cutting water consumption by 20 percent,
shore up strategic levees, study new reservoirs and pass Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger's $9 billion-plus water bond, according to a set of preliminary
recommendations released Wednesday by a Cabinet-level panel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:21.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-weight:normal'>The Delta
Vision Committee, charged with advising policy makers on the future of the
failing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, said the proposals are aimed at
spurring discussions among committee members and stakeholders who will gather
Dec. 5 in Sacramento.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>In addition to
authorizing additional funding and bolstering infrastructure, the committee
proposed designating the delta a National Heritage Area, increasing the state's
supply of recycled and desalinated water and cracking down on water permits
violators. Water rights permits ostensibly set the amount of water that may be
diverted from any water source.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>The preliminary
proposals grew out of a 20-month study by the independent, governor-appointed
Delta Blue Ribbon Task Force. Last month, the task force, comprised of
scientists, policy experts and planners, set two, equal, over-arching goals for
work on the delta: Restoration of the ecosystem and the creation of a stable
water supply for California.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Now, the Delta
Vision Committee must decide which nuts-and-bolts steps to include in its
recommendations to the governor and Legislature by Dec. 31.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>The delta, a
1,300-square-mile estuary, acts as a giant funnel, delivering water - mostly
from the north - to approximately 25 million Californians, many of them in
Central and Southern California. Over the last several years, lawmakers,
scientists and water users have watched, unnerved, as water quality has
deteriorated and fish populations crashed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Adding insult to
injury, the delta is now embroiled in drought and a legal fight pitting
environmental interests against operators of the federal and state pumps that
send water to cities and farmlands statewide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Taking steps to
mend the delta would aid farmers, cities and wildlife alike.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>However, some
critics contend the ambitious effort echoes that of CalFed, a coordinating body
formed in the mid-1990s that held many of the same goals as the Delta Vision
group. According to the delta task force's analysis, lack of leadership and
accountability doomed many of CalFed's initiatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:gray;font-weight:normal'>Byron
Leydecker, JCT</span></i><span style='font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:gray;font-weight:normal'>Chair,
Friends of Trinity River</span></i><span style='font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:gray;font-weight:normal'>PO Box 2327</span></i><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:gray;font-weight:normal'>Mill Valley,
CA 94942-2327</span></i><span style='font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:gray;font-weight:normal'>415 383 4810</span></i><span
style='font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:gray;font-weight:normal'>415 519 4810
cell</span></i><span style='font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:gray;font-weight:normal'><a
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href="mailto:bleydecker@stanfordalumni.org"><span style='color:blue'>bleydecker@stanfordalumni.org</span></a>
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