California's Central Valley—one of the nation's most critical agricultural regions and home to over 1.3 million people—is prone to flooding. Mapping the extent of winter floods has been ...

About 75% of Central Valley Project water is used for agriculture, while much of the rest goes to cities and towns in the San Joaquin Valley, including Sacramento and Fresno.

The Central Valley Project provides about 5 million acres feet of water to farm, enough to irrigate about a third of the agricultural land in California, according to the Bureau of Reclamation.