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The San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta endures many threats to economic sectors relying on its water, fish and wildlife.

Despite these continuing threats, there are also solutions to the Delta's problems.

C-WIN here provides links to descriptions of the threats posed and solutions for the Delta.

NEW! See our Delta Public Trust Lawsuit Press Room.

Threats:

• Peripheral Canals
• Bay Delta Conservation Plan
• Other Delta Conveyance concepts
• South Delta salinity violations
• Delta flows and fish problems
• Drought water banks and water transfers
• Proposed Two Gates Project
• Intertie between the Delta Mendota Canal and the California Aqueduct, and the state and federal governments' use of "joint point of diversion."
• Selenium toxicity and Grasslands Bypass Project
  

Delta Solutions

• Missed opportunities for the Delta
• State Water Board's Delta Flow Criteria Report Assignment
• Flows for Delta fish
• Retiring poisoned lands upstream
• C-WIN's water rights action program
• Caifornia Spigot: C-WIN's Delta Public Trust Lawsuit

Court Cases

• Racanelli Decision (1986, United States v. State Water Resources Control Board)

Articles

• Budgets, Billionaires, Bond, Big Profits and the Brown Family- Part One- By Lloyd Carter and Patrick Porgans
• Delta Over Pumping 2000-2006 caused Delta to be "in crisis" today- By Burt Wilson Public Water News Service
• Water Grab- By Burt Wilson in Sacramento News and Review
• Water Grab Part 2- By Burt Wilson in Sacramento News and Review
• Sacramento Bee Viewpoint: State Water Plan is a done deal long before 2012- By Burt Wilson