Areas of the San Joaquin Valley and Tulare Lake Basin where drainage problem lands occur.

Click to enlarge. Courtesy of California Department of Water Resources.

Additional Resources:

• Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge
• San Luis Unit Drainage
• Grasslands Bypass Project
• Central Valley Salinity
• Selenium
• The Land Retirement Option
  

Since the late 1960s the federal Central Valley Project, and later the State Water Project, supply irrigation water to growers irrigating approximately 1.3 million acres of drainage-problem lands on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley and Tulare Lake Basin.

The California Aqueduct, which transports water exported from the Delta into the contractual arrangements of the Monterey Agreement.

Courtesy of California Department of Water Resources.

Drought from 1987 to 1992, and again in 1994, financial crisis among state water contractors, and the prospect of severe regulation of Delta exports by the State Water Project (SWP) provoked the project’s most serious crisis.

Today’s story of California water is really about justice in water denied to fish, to the California public, and to future generations. We at the California Water Impact Network see fundamental travesties that threaten fisheries and ecosystems with extinction, compromise the rule of established water law, and undermine the viability of our economy in our state.

And we’re doing something about them.