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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial view of the Sacramento River in the town of Hood, near where intakes would be built for the proposed Delta water tunnel.

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.