California's water system has remained a complex topic and was recently put into the spotlight by President Donald Trump's comments. "This is the intake for the Central Valley Project, the federal ...

BYRON, Calif. — Giant pumps hum inside a warehouse-like building, pushing water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta into the California Aqueduct, where it travels more than 400 miles south to ...

A new scientific assessment finds California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is in poor ecological health, and that a big reason is the amount of water being pumped out.

Several years ago, after she’d been elected state Assembly speaker, I asked Karen Bass about her views on the water supply — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Water flows in the Delta-Mendota Canal, part of the federally operated Central Valley Project, near Los Banos. (Brian van der Brug ...

The water will flow by gravity through protective fish screens, under the highway and into sedimentation basins. As the water clarifies, it will move toward the intake shafts and drop into the tunnel ...

Aerial view of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Northern California. (File photo courtesy of the Department of Water Resources) This column was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for ...

When the Trump administration presented a new plan exporting more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta five years ago, state officials and environmentalists objected that the new rules would ...

California’s history is defined by building great and innovative infrastructure projects that improve our quality of life and set our state up for continued economic prosperity. From the Golden Gate ...

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The project aims to address water supply concerns in Southern California but faces opposition from environmental groups and Delta residents who fear negative ecological and economic consequences.