Rippling Effects of California’s Water Crisis

The Central Valley Project is a pipeline carrying water from northern to Southern California and each twist in the metaphorical pipe—such as water management decisions on behalf of the delicate Bay Delta ecosystem— ripple out to affect everything else, including salmon species’ survival, the West Coast fishing industry, the Klamath River, as well as the Southern California agricultural economy

Kelley Lincoln brings us an explanation of Northern California’s contentious interlocking salmon plans..