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A worker with H&B Drilling & Sons places gravel around a newly drilled 240-foot water well in unincorporated Fresno County last February. Researchers found that plans for managing groundwater in ...
Contaminated groundwater in the Central Valley of California is a growing problem due to contamination and overuse. [1] This problem is compounded by the overdrafting of underground aquifers. [1] nitrates are the most abundant pollutants in the Central Valley due to the copious amounts of agricultural runoff from the farms. [2]
The crisis has cast a harsh light on the state's ability to provide clean and affordable drinking water to all its residents, particularly those in the Central Valley, where widespread ...
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The Central Valley is an agriculturally productive region dependent on large volumes of irrigation water. This region is considered arid to semiarid and is reliant on infrastructure to deliver water. The Central Valley is prone to excessive flooding due to snowmelt from the surrounding Sierra Nevada mountain range in the spring. A controlled ...
Many CVP water users are represented by the Central Valley Project Water Association. In addition to water storage and regulation, the system has a hydroelectric capacity of over 2,000 megawatts , and provides recreation and flood control with its twenty dams and reservoirs.
The Central Valley is home to many of California's most vulnerable groups to bird flu: agricultural workers. It's also where wastewater surveillance of the virus is the weakest.
It would relieve irrigation water demand and groundwater overdraft in the Central Valley and boost the water supply for Southern California. Through the latter it would allow for other Southwestern states—Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah—as well as Mexico to receive an increased share of the waters of the Colorado River.