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They estimate the project would yield about 500,000 acre-feet per year — a significant amount but a fraction of California’s annual water needs. Delta farmers, residents, regional Native ...
The approved Delta Conveyance project is facing legal opposition from Delta water groups and environmental advocates. Environmentalists, local agencies file lawsuits against California Delta ...
The last time California finalized an environmental impact report for a similar Delta project was in 2016. That plan, which constituted a pair of tunnels, stumbled amid high costs and Newsom ...
Delta Conveyance Project, formerly known as California Water Fix and Eco Restore or the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, is a $20 billion [1] plan proposed by Governor Jerry Brown and the California Department of Water Resources to build a 36 foot (11 m) diameter tunnel to carry fresh water from the Sacramento River southward under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Bethany Reservoir for use by ...
A California judge says a nearly 65-year-old law does not give the state permission to borrow the billions of dollars it would need to build a large water project, a decision that could threaten a ...
The Metropolitan Water District's board is set to vote in December on whether to spend $141.6 million for planning of the proposed Delta tunnel project. California water agency considers spending ...
The Delta provides an estimated seven million acre-feet (2.1 cu mi; 8.6 km 3) of water per year, of which about 100,000 acre-feet (0.030 cu mi; 0.12 km 3) are exported to the San Francisco Bay Area, 1.7 million acre-feet (0.50 cu mi; 2.1 km 3) are used locally, and over five million acre-feet (1.5 cu mi; 6.2 km 3) are exported to the San ...
The Central Valley Project (est. 1933) — a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation water management project to provide irrigation and municipal water to the Central Valley of California. The project's infrastructure also transports water from Sierra Nevada rivers and the wetter (northern) Sacramento Valley to the drier (southern) San Joaquin Valley .