State Water Project will deliver only 5% of contracted amounts, Newsom administration says
Cities and farms across California will receive even less water than they had been promised two months ago from the State Water Project, a massive system of dams, pipes and canals that typically provides water to 27 million people from Silicon Valley to San Diego.
Nemeth also announced that the state will seal up an emergency drought barrier in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta by April 15 to stop salty water from San Francisco Bay being drawn too far inland toward the giant state and federal pumps near Tracy that send water south to cities and farms.at False River near Oakley in Contra Costa County. A notch was cut in it during the winter to allow boats and fish to pass.
The State Water Project, approved by voters in 1960 and a key legacy of former Gov. Pat Brown, moves water from Northern California to the south. It takes melting snow from the Sierra Nevada and transports it from Lake Oroville through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta all the way to the Los Angeles Basin. In normal times, it supplies drinking water to two out of three Californians — and irrigates about 750,000 acres of farmland.
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