The issue focused on the amount of money that would be needed to pay for a $1.3 billion water system expansion.

"It's not about money. It's about policy," said State Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Wash. "We have an extremely strong state law in place to protect our environment and when it comes to building systems that are going to help us move away from polluting resources. This is one more example of how we can't just make up what's there