The pledge came as legislators scheduled their first hearings in a special session called last month by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to deal with one of the state's most pressing problems.  "No surface storage, no deal," said GOP leader Mike Villines of Fresno. "The idea that we let millions of acre feet of water every year run to the ocean totally wasted is insanity." Republican lawmakers want the state to help fund the proposed Sites Reservoir in a valley north of Sacramento, the Temperance Flat Reservoir in the Sierra foothills above Fresno and the expansion of the Los Vaqueros Reservoir built by Contra Costa County. Assembly Republicans said Wednesday that they will reject any plan to improve the state's water supplies unless it includes funding for new dams.  

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