California’s water supplies are critically low. During this time of uncertainty, people should expect what water remains to be managed carefully. Millions of Californians are sacrificing to do their part to help with the drought, working hard to make what scarce supplies we have stretch as far as possible. Unfortunately, the Federal government is moving in the opposite direction.
The Bureau of Reclamation is poised to dump more than 27 billion gallons, or 83,000 acre-feet of our dwindling water supplies, into the ocean in a gamble to prevent one of several possible causes of a 2002 outbreak of a fish parasite that affected salmon.
Learn more about the problem, Reclamation’s proposed response, and the consequences of past “Flow Augmentation” on communities, people, and other at-risk species by checking out the fact sheet by clicking here.