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 ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing to build a 45-mile water tunnel in California’s Delta. A new state report says the proposal is the “single most effective” action to adapt the state’s water system to ...

Aerial photos of the region to be affected by the Delta water tunnels and intakes. Randall Benton Fresno Bee file The farmland in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta area contains some of the ...

The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons When the Trump administration presented a new plan exporting more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta five years ago ...

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The state may now need legislative or voter approval to issue bonds for the controversial tunnel under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

It’s tiny, it’s silver and it’s at the center of a decades-long controversy over California’s water system. It’s the delta smelt. This threatened fish lives exclusively in the Sacramento-San Joaquin ...

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.

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS. GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM WAS IN COLUSA COUNTY YESTERDAY FOCUSING ON WATER INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS AND JOB CREATION. THE NEWS CONFERENCE, NOT FAR FROM THE LOCATION OF THE PROPOSED ...

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