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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday began signing bills in the just-passed five-bill water package. He is expected to sign the centerpiece, an $11.14 billion general obligation bond scheduled to go before voters on Nov. 2, 2010, early next week. To win passage in the fractured Legislature – and to ultimately have more appeal to voters in every corner of the state – the bond measure is loaded with buckets of money for a variety of water development and environmental protection causes...