Cost for fixing the Delta

An August 2009 study by Strategic Economic Applications Company puts the cost to "fix" the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta at somewhere between 23 and 53 Billion US $. We should be familiar with those numbers if not with the details of the study. Given the current status of the California Budget Process, and the California Economy, there is no way that we can do this.

Everyone wants money that we don't have: Given the choice, I would rather have a high speed rail link running N<->S than this... which only runs South.