I'm Greg Dalton, and this is a special Climate One program on the California governor's race.

For 15 years, governors Arnold Schwarzenger and Jerry Brown charted a steady bipartisan course as

climate leaders. They supported international agreements and signed legislation promoting clean

energy and electric transportation. During that time,

the effects of climate disruption have become increasingly clear. Rising seas are causing

coastal flooding and erosion. Wildfires are becoming more common and devastating, and heat records

are being shattered, 106 degrees in San Francisco last September.

California has also endured a historic drought,

and scientists say warm and dry years are becoming more frequent.

The next governor will need to upgrade the state's vast water system

to deal with dry and uncertain times.

That means navigating a complex puzzle of tunnels,

dams, and bonds. California has more than enough money in its state budget. We do not need new

taxes. We do not need new bond measures. What we need to do is spend the money that we already have,

but spend it the way that we're supposed to. One of the things that I do like about at least one of the bonds that's being proposed is a focus on the conditions

that exist in California, particularly as it relates to basic needs that are not being served

for a million plus citizens in the state of California. We need to clean up our aquifers. We need

to recycle. We need to recapture our storm water runoff.

We need to keep our deals and do those two dams that we agreed to. We need to do all of that

prefatory to a grand bargain. That was Republican Travis Allen and Democrats Gavin Newsom and

Antonio Villarigosa. There are three of the leading candidates vying for the top two spots in the June 5th primary.

I sat down with them separately to talk about their plans to maintain the flow of water and energy that sustains our economy and lifestyle.

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