News release: Proposed Central Valley Project Operations Plan: Time to undo Trump’s damage and put ratepayers, tribes, communities, and the environment first
A Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on the continued operation of the federal Central Valley Project (CVP) favors corporate agricultural profits over the interests of ratepayers, tribes, and the environment and pointedly ignores state groundwater law. The CVP is a massive federal system of reservoirs, aqueducts and pumping stations that delivers water from the Trinity River in Northwest California and Central Valley rivers to San Joaquin Valley agricultural operations and some California cities. The CVP is operated in coordination with its state analogue, the State Water Project (SWP). The CVP and SWP annually provide a small number of corporate farmers a volume of water equal to the total water usage of California’s 40 million residents.