Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of the Interior announced the Bureau of Reclamation's Initial 2010 Central Valley Project (CVP) Water Supply Forecast:

"This is an important step for California and San Joaquin Valley farmers. I raised this critical issue during my meeting with President Obama this week, and am very glad to see this action from his administration—our bipartisan efforts to get California what it deserves from the federal government are clearly paying off. Now we must direct our attention to the long-term improvement of our water infrastructure to avoid these year-to-year uncertainties."

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