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ByJulietWilliams TheAssociatedPress SACRAMENTO Gov. Jerry Brown laid out his long- term strategy for shoring up California's water sys- tem Monday, telling a water conference at Stanford Uni- versity that the state's wa- ter crisis and the ongoing drought will occupy much of his time if he is re-elected in November. "Water is going to be a major issue that will be addressed in the Cal- ifornia Legislature and in Congress, and throughout communities everywhere, because water doesn't get solved by one person or in one place," he said. Still, the Democratic governor said he intends to serve as leader on the issue, telling the crowd that the state's drought, now entering its fourth year, is too complex for a "flash in the pan" gover- nor to tackle. He said his work began when he was governor the first time, from 1975 to 1983, which also happened to be dur- ing the state's last major drought. "This is not really the work for just a one-term governor; this is work for a four-term governor," he quipped. The event also gave Brown an opportunity to promote a November bal- lot initiative, Proposition 1, which would authorize $7.5 billion for water infrastruc- ture projects and conser- vation efforts. But he said that amount alone will not be nearly enough to address the state's long-term water challenges, which will re- quire "tens of billions of dollars invested over the next 10 to 20 years." While polls show sup- port for the bipartisan bal- lot measure, Brown's $25 billion plan to build twin tunnels underneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has faced intense opposition. The 10- to 15- year project is intended to make it easier to pump wa- ter from the Sacramento River to Central Valley farms and Southern Cali- fornia cities, while guard- ing against the effects of a levee collapse during a ma- jor earthquake. Brown's opponent in No- vember, Republican Neel Kashkari, opposes the tun- nel plan, although he has endorsed Proposition 1. Kashkari's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday. Voters rejected Brown's last delta water plan for a so-called peripheral canal in 1982. The Brown administra- tion has a 10-point list of water goals, which include promoting conservation, restoring ecosystems, ex- panding storage capacity, improving groundwater management, increasing flood protection and mak- ing regulations more effi- cient. Brown's father, former Gov. Pat Brown, ushered in the State Water Project in 1959, an extensive system of reservoirs and canals that was considered an en- gineering marvel in its day. Today, it supplies 25 mil- lion people and farms that produce half the nation's fruit and vegetables, but the system was built for a state with a population half of the current 38 million. DROUGHT Br ow n: C al if or ni a ne ed s lon g-t er m vi si on o n wa te r LEFT:Adocksitshigh and dry at the end of a boat ramp yards away from the edge of Folsom Lake near Folsom. BELOW: Gov. Jerry Brown, flanked by Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway, of Tulare, le , and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, right, holds up the measure he signed to place a $7.5billion water plan on the November ballot, in Sacramento. IL — RICH PEDRONCELLI PHOTOS The Associated Press ALAMEDA A World War II airman whose remains were found more than 60 years after he was shot down over Germany is set to be buried in Oakland. William "Billy" Parker Cook will be laid to rest with full military honors near other family members at Mountain View Cemetery on Sunday, the San Fran- cisco Chronicle reported. Cook and a five-man crew were on a mission to take out a critical rail bridge in Germany when their plane came under fire and went down in December 1944, according to the Depart- ment of Defense. Aviation researchers found the crash site near Allmuthen, Belgium in 2006. A dig in 2012 and 2013 led to the discovery of bone fragments and cloth- ing belonging to Cook. "This is something that came out of the blue," said Bruce Cook, 62, of Newport Beach, Billy Cook's nephew and closest living relative. "It's something I hadn't thought about in years. I'm just glad I'm still around to arrange the final resting place." Billy Cook lived in Alam- eda after graduating from the University of Califor- nia, Berkeley and getting married. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces and rose to the rank of 1st lieutenant, flying missions in a twin- engine B-26G Marauder called "Hunsucker," accord- ing to the Chronicle. He was 27 when his plane was shot down. Bruce Cook said he vis- ited his uncle's home in Al- ameda in the early 2000s and met with Billy Cook's widow, Jean Swanson, who has since died. "This man perished be- fore I was born," said Bruce Cook, whose middle names, William Parker, come from his uncle. "But I'm named after him, and I spent my childhood hearing about him. He's certainly close in my psyche." SERVICE World War II airman to be buried in Oakland By Lisa Leff The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Democratic voters not to be complacent about the No- vember midterm elections, saying Monday that work- ing women and their fami- lies will lose out on a better future if Republicans gain control of both houses of Congress. The former secretary of state made the remarks during a sold-out women's luncheon in San Francisco that raised $1.4 million for the Democratic Congres- sional Campaign Commit- tee. The fundraiser was hosted by House Demo- cratic leader and former speaker Nancy Pelosi, who joked that she was ready to give up her own title as the highest-rank- ing woman in U.S. politics to elect a female Democrat as president "and soon," a crowd-pleasing reference to the possibility of Clin- ton running for president in 2016. "If Hillary Clinton, mother and grandmother, decides to run for president she will win, and like I have said before she will be one of the best-prepared lead- ers to preside in the Oval Office," Pelosi said in her introduction to Clinton's speech. "That she happens to be a woman is a bonus and a wonderful, wonder- ful thing." After acknowledging several congressional Dem- ocrats in the room who are running for re-elec- tion, Clinton told her over- whelmingly female audi- ence that only Democrats have fought and would con- tinue fighting to raise the minimum wage and for paid family leave, afford- able child care and other policies that primarily ben- efit low-income and mid- dle-class women. "It is not easy serving and every year it seems to get more challenging, but these candidates and many more across the country have a plan to jump-start the middle class and once more make it work for ev- eryone," she said. "These elections in two weeks and one day come down to a simple question: who is on your side?" Clinton reminded the au- dience of the state the na- tion's economy was in when President Barack Obama took office and Pelosi pre- sided over the House and accused the Republican Party of trying to rewrite history by blaming Demo- crats for the slow recovery. "It's truly regrettable that despite all the great work Nancy did and Pres- ident Obama, given what was inherited when the president came into office that we are having to work so hard to elect and re-elect Democrats. It's as though the other side wants to pass an air of amnesia over America," she said. Tickets for the luncheon ranged in price from $500 per person to $32,400 per couple and included a per- formance by singer-song- writer Carole King, who led the audience in sing- ing her 1967 song," (You Make Me Feel Like) A Nat- ural Woman." Clinton appeared on Monday night at a $32,400-per-person fund- raiser in Los Angeles ben- efiting the Democratic Sen- atorial Campaign Commit- tee. The event is hosted by several prominent players in the entertainment in- dustry, including Dream- works Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, who backed Obama in the 2008 president election, and di- rector Steven Spielberg, who endorsed Clinton six years ago. POLITICS Clinton: Midterm elections should motivate women ERIC RISBERG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a fundraiser for Democratic congressional candidates hosted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at the Fairmont Hotel on Monday in San Francisco. The Associated Press THOUSANDOAKS Awoman stuck in the chimney of a SouthernCaliforniahousehas been rescued and arrested. Ventura County fire Capt. Ron Oatman says firefight- ers responding to neigh- bors' reports of a woman crying had to chisel away much of the chimney and lubricate it with dish soap Sunday to free 30-year-old Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa. TheVenturaCountyStarre- portsshewasarrested onsus- picion of illegal entry and giv- ingfalseinformationtopolice. Police say Nunez- Figueroa knows the owner of the home in Thousand Oaks, who wasn't there. They wouldn't elaborate. She had no clear injuries but was taken to a hospital for evaluation. 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