California Cuts Environment Spending in $15 Billion Water Plan
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California Governor Jerry Brown said he will scale back plans for restoration in an ecologically sensitive delta to build two $15 billion water tunnels meant to guard against events like the record drought gripping the area.
California will seek to restore only a third of 100,000 acres it had proposed in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Brown said Thursday in Oakland. The restoration and tunnels are intended to slow decline of a watershed that supplies 25 million people and the most productive agricultural region in the U.S.