Gov. Jerry Brown delivered an impassioned defense of his ambitious plan to drill huge tunnels through the delta east of San Francisco to move more northern water south, saying California’s economic well-being depended on it.
Brown said during a state budget briefing that the huge public works project – easily, the largest in the nation’s history — “is an economic necessity that I’ve laid out, not because I want a legacy but because it appears absolutely imperative for the economic well-being of the people of California into the future.”
“The water that is needed for Santa Clara, half the water for the Silicon Valley flows through the delta, 80 percent of the water for Livermore, for the farms in the Central Valley, for the people of Southern California. That water is at risk as it flows through the delta, protected only by hundred-year-old earthen levees,” the governor added.
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