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  2. Central Valley Project - Wikipedia

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    It was devised in 1933 in order to provide irrigation and municipal water to much of California's Central Valley—by regulating and storing water in reservoirs in the northern half of the state (once considered water-rich but suffering water-scarce conditions more than half the year in most years), and transporting it to the water-poor San ...

  3. Auburn Dam - Wikipedia

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    However, increased water uses and diversions, requirements for 200-year flood control, and joint system operations have increased seasonal flood capacity in Folsom Lake. [9] Map of the extent of the Auburn Reservoir. The demand for irrigation water in the Sacramento area and other parts of the Central Valley were also growing.

  4. Water in California - Wikipedia

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    Map of water storage and delivery facilities as well as major rivers and cities in the state of California. Central Valley Project systems are in red, and State Water Project in blue. California's interconnected water system serves almost 40 million people and irrigates over 5,680,000 acres (2,300,000 ha) of farmland. [1]

  5. Central Valley farmers like Donald Trump on water. On ... - AOL

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    The federal government, through the U.S. Department of the Interior and its water-regulating subsidiary Bureau of Reclamation, control the Central Valley Project that sends water to San Joaquin ...

  6. Two congressmen request review after Times report on Central ...

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    Two members of Congress have asked the Government Accountability Office to review how vulnerable the Bureau of Reclamation is to water theft following a Los Angeles Times report on a long-running ...

  7. Central Valley wells are going dry in this drought. How to ...

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  8. Refuge Water Supply Program - Wikipedia

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    The Refuge Water Supply Program (RWSP) is administered by the United States Department of the Interior jointly by the Bureau of Reclamation and Fish and Wildlife Service and tasked with acquiring a portion and delivering a total of 555,515 acre feet (AF) of water annually to 19 specific protected wetland areas in the Central Valley of California as mandated with the passing of the Central ...

  9. C.W. Bill Jones Pumping Plant - Wikipedia

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    From there, the water travels to the C.W. Bill Jones Pumping Plant, which raises water into the Delta-Mendota Canal, which in turn travels 117 miles (188 km) southwards to Mendota Pool on the San Joaquin River, supplying water to other CVP reservoirs about midway. The Tracy Fish Collection Facility exists at the entrance of the pump plant in ...