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I'm not sure that the existing reservoirs are being managed optimally. As I recall, perhaps incorrectly, there are mandatory outflows for maintaining endangered

• Animats 3y ago
  Managing the Sacramento river delta is tough. It will become too salty and ruin agricultural land if too little fresh water is let through.[1] [1] https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-and-salinity https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/sacramento-san-joaq...
  • dredmorbius 3y ago
    Not just ag land, but the California Water Project and Aqueduct, which feeds both Los Angeles and SoCal agriculture. One of the major themes of Mark Reisner's book A Dangerous Place, which explores the scenario of a major Hayward Fault earthquake (that's the fault running along the San Francisco Bay's eastern shoreline) would be massive levee failures in the California Delta, and the knock-on consequences of massive salt-water intrusion on not only the Delta but farming and southern California as well. <https://archive.org/details/dangerousplaceca00reis/page/176/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/dangerousplaceca00reis/page/176/...>