SACRAMENTO (KCBS/AP) -- State legislators and Governor Schwarzenegger resumed talks Saturday over a deal to upgrade California's water system and save hundreds of bills now facing a possible veto if the two sides don\'t strike a deal.
For the second day in a row, the water talks ended again without a resolution.
Schwarzenegger says some 700 bills that have already made it through the legislature will be vetoed if lawmakers don\'t come up with a comprehensive deal that fixes an aging system of reservoirs and canals.
Rita Schimdt Sudman is the executive director of the non-profit, non-partisan Water Education Foundation.
"We\'ve had three years of drought," she said. "On top of that we have some court-ordered pumping, that they limit the pumping in the Delta and at the south of the Delta that\'s where the water goes to the Central Valley farms, to some of the Bay Area and on to Southern California for the urban folks, so a lot of things have collided."
She believes much of the impasse stems from differing views on water storage.
Democrats in the legislature are sympathetic to conservationists that want to see California tear down many of its dams, a position the governor generally opposes.
Schwarzenegger hopes a solution to a problem that has eluded California for decades will become part of his legacy.
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