Strong editorial in today's Los Angeles Times about the Legislature's inability to move forward on water reform, even though most of the thorniest issues seem to be resolved:

Legislative leaders have, according to insiders, resolved the most important issues on a series of bills to repair the state's crumbling water infrastructure, preserve ecosystems in the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, mandate a 20% cut in per capita usage by 2020, create new storage facilities, monitor groundwater supplies and develop new penalties and enforcement mechanisms on illegal diversion. So why is there no bill on the Senate or Assembly floor? Because this is California, whose lawmakers would, if convening aboard a sinking ship, be arguing about the proper protocol for loading the lifeboats while seawater was bubbling around their chins.