One possible delta tunnels deal would give cheap water to California farmers — and more expensive water to cities
by Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times
Feb 01, 2018
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Months of behind-the-scenes talks have failed to drum up enough money to pay the full costs of replumbing the center of California's sprawling waterworks with two giant water tunnels.
That has left the state with little choice but to scale down a roughly $17 billion water delivery project to fit a funding pot of less than $10 billion.
State officials are expected to soon announce exactly what form a revised California WaterFix would take.
While it is assumed the project will shrink from
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