One of the most controversial water issues in California is the proposed Delta Conveyance. The 45 mile long tunnel will have the capacity to move up to 4 million acre feet per year from the Sacramento River safely under the fragile delta ecosystem, delivering water to southbound aqueducts. That’s not bad. But the reservoir storage necessary to allow the tunnel to operate year-round at capacity, or even at half-capacity, is unlikely to ever be met. The state’s own estimate of the tunnel...
