The justification, then and now, for depriving Central California farms of water is that fish populations such as the Delta Smelt and Chinook Salmon are suffering as a result of water being pumped ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Trump administration is making good on a promise to send more water to California farmers in the state’s crop-rich Central Valley. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on ...
The Trump administration plans to weaken environmental protections for threatened fish in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and pump more water to Central Valley farmlands, according to ...
Water flows in the Delta-Mendota Canal, part of the federally operated Central Valley Project, near Highway 165 in Los Banos. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Acting on an order from President ...