DAN WALTERS: Environmentalists and their allies have scored two wins over agricultural interests in the decades-long conflict over how much water can be diverted from Northern California rivers and the
The most important battleground in California’s perpetual war over water is the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Dozens of Northern California rivers and streams coalesce in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, which join to form the Delta estuary and whose waters then flow into San Francisco Bay.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) A California judge has declined to validate a contract granting permanent access to federally controlled water for the nation's largest agricultural water supplier, a move that means the U.S.