Search results
1 wrz 2007 · A federal judge late Friday ordered protective measures for a tiny endangered fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a mandate state water officials warned could cut Northern...
- Debate erupts over California's decision to reduce delta water flows ...
California water managers decided to curtail extra water...
- Debate erupts over California's decision to reduce delta water flows ...
15 wrz 2014 · In 2011, Judge Wanger blocked a federal attempt to remove 300,000 acre-feet of water to protect Delta smelt. In making the decision, he cited the consequences of water removal on California water users.
Amid the labyrinthine waterways of California’s lush delta, a controversy brews around a diminutive fish, the delta smelt. Often no more than a whisper in the roiling water wars, this endangered species has unwittingly sparked contentious debates across the sun-drenched state.
26 maj 2007 · May 26, 2007 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. For the second time this year, a judge has ruled that management of California’s water system is illegally imperiling fish, making it increasingly...
1 wrz 2007 · These projects rely on pumps and aqueducts to move water from the San Francisco Bay-Delta region to central and Southern California. Wanger ruled that pumping operations must be reduced in an effort to protect Delta smelt, a threatened fish species.
2 paź 2024 · California water managers decided to curtail extra water flows intended to support endangered delta smelt. The change has sparked debate over protections for fish.
28 cze 2024 · The delta smelt is a little three-inch silvery blue fish that lives in the San Francisco Bay and the San Joaquin Delta, and its declining population numbers have incited California’s controversial water wars.