If the Delta Conveyance Tunnel is granted all necessary permits; if the California Department of Water Resources can create a plan to raise $20 billion; if the Water Resources Control Board extends water rights to the State Water Project; and if a dozen or more lawsuits are won; then construction on one of this century’s most ambitious civil engineering projects will commence. The year would be 2035. It would be preceded by five years of infrastructure upgrades in the Delta region. Stronger bridges and streets will lay the way for machines of every scale to safely traverse the tunnel’s 45-mile path from Sacramento to the Bethany pump station at Stockton.