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  2. They used to call California ocean desalination a disaster ...

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    David Feldman, director of Water UCI at UC Irvine, said desalination could eventually provide "somewhere between 10% and half" of California's potable water — with one caveat.

  3. Water in California - Wikipedia

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    Other common crop water use, if using all irrigated water: fruits and nuts with 34% of water use and 45% of revenue, field crops with 14% of water and 4% of revenue, pasture forage with 11% of water use and 1% of revenue, rice with 8% of water use and 2% of revenue (despite its lack of water, California grows nearly 5 billion pounds (2.3 ...

  4. California is letting billions of gallons of stormwater wash ...

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    Had the tunnel been operational this winter, the Department of Water Resources could have captured about 481,000 acre-feet of stormwater between Jan. 1 and Feb. 22, or enough water for about 5 ...

  5. California water wars - Wikipedia

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    The water rights were acquired through political fighting and, as described by one author, "chicanery, subterfuge ... and a strategy of lies". [2]: 62 Water from the Owens River started being diverted to Los Angeles in 1913, precipitating conflict and eventual ruin of the valley's economy. By the 1920s, so much water was diverted from the Owens ...

  6. 'A ticking time bomb': Why California can't provide safe ...

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    More than a decade after California passed the Human Right to Water Act, about 1 million residents still lack access to clean, safe, affordable water. ... that the problem of failed water systems ...

  7. Central Valley Project - Wikipedia

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    The California Water Plan is the state's official water policy with the latest version completed in 2013; Water in California Summarizes the history and details of the state's water policy issues. California's Irrigation district's 92 public self-governing subdivisions [613] of the State that purchase water from the CVP; Central Valley Ag - CVA

  8. Monterey Bay desalination project is approved despite ...

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    California American Water, an investor-owned utility, has proposed building a more than $330-milliondesalination project on a former sand-mining site in Marina, a small citywhere one-third of the ...

  9. Delta Conveyance Project - Wikipedia

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    Delta Conveyance Project, formerly known as California Water Fix and Eco Restore or the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, is a $20 billion [1] plan proposed by Governor Jerry Brown and the California Department of Water Resources to build a 36 foot (11 m) diameter tunnel to carry fresh water from the Sacramento River southward under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Bethany Reservoir for use by ...