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Built in 1930s |
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20 Reservoirs |
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500 Miles of Canals, Other Facilities |
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Delivers 7 MAF Annually (normal year) |
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Irrigates 3 MA of Farmland |
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Provides Water to 2 Million Urban Customers |
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Built in 1960s |
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22 Dams & Reservoirs |
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Extends 600 Miles From Northern to Southern
California |
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Contracts Signed for 4.2 MAF |
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Delivers Reliably 2.3 MAF and Up to 3.7 MAF
Annually to: |
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San Joaquin Valley farmers |
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Bay Area and Southern California urban users |
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Provides drinking water for 22 million people |
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Supports CA’s trillion dollar economy |
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Investment
in Water
Infrastructure
Has Sharply
Declined
Since the
1960s |
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Population
Growth is
Soaring |
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Population is
settling in
drier areas
with few
water supply
options |
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Water Recycling |
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500,000 AF recycled annually |
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Enough fresh water saved to meet needs of San
Francisco for a year |
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Conservation / Water Use Efficiency |
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Agriculture: |
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California farmers using less water today than
in 1967 |
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Irrigating 8% more acreage |
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67% greater crop production |
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Crop acreage expected to decline 325,000 acres
by 2020 |
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Conservation / Water Use Efficiency |
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Urban: |
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Cities & businesses investing millions |
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Southern California imports the same amount of
water today as in 1975 – despite 5 million more people |
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Recycling & re-use |
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Partnerships |
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Arvin-Edison WSD / MWD agreement to store
250,000 AF of water underground |
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North Kern WSD /
MWD agreement to
store up to 60,000 AF
in groundwater basin |
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Partnerships to implement 50 projects over next
10 years |
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Groundwater management / conjunctive use |
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Fish passage improvements |
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Water transfers / exchanges |
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Watershed management |
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Will generate up to 185,000 AF |
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Notes
