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The 2015 California drought brought pipeline proposals back to the public consciousness, abetted by celebrities Rush Limbaugh and William Shatner, [7] the latter proposing a Kickstarter campaign to raise $30 billion to fund such a pipeline from Washington state. [8] As of 2013, there were no interstate water pipelines to California. [9]
The Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct is a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada and valleys of Northern and Central California to Southern California. [4]
The Colorado River Aqueduct, or CRA, is a 242 mi (389 km) water conveyance in Southern California in the United States, operated by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The aqueduct impounds water from the Colorado River at Lake Havasu on the California– Arizona border, west across the Mojave and Colorado deserts to the ...
Recently, officials from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California celebrated as crews lowered a section of earthquake-resistant pipeline into a portion of the Colorado River aqueduct ...
The pipeline project through Elk Grove will ferry recycled water to south Sacramento County crops and habitat. One of California’s largest water pipeline projects will run through Elk Grove ...
Plans to build a $200-million water pipeline across the Mojave Desert to supply the city of Ridgecrest are angering environmentalists, farmers and miners.
The last segment of pipe, known as the Saugus Pipeline, [34] carries water south past Bouquet Canyon, Soledad Canyon and Placerita Canyon in the city of Santa Clarita. From there it roughly parallels Sierra Highway before it enters Magazine Canyon near the Terminal structure and Cascades. Water from the Terminal structure can then flow to ...
Through a pipeline known as the Central Coast Water Authority extension, completed in 1997, [41] the Coastal Branch supplies water to Lake Cachuma, a 205,000 acre⋅ft (0.253 km 3) reservoir on the Santa Ynez River.