State water deal reached

Ending years of feuding over how to provide water throughout the state, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state Legislature on Wednesday reached agreement on a wide-ranging water plan that asks voters to approve an $11.1 billion bond package. Daily News.

Los Angeles-area officials praised the agreement for providing a stable supply of water by working to manage and restore the fragile ecosystem of the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta, one of the main water sources for Southern California. The bond will go before voters in November 2010.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who worked on water issues when he was Assembly speaker and has been pushing to have Los Angeles projects included in the bond measure, said the plan would assure Los Angeles of the water it needs, at stable rates.