According to the Bureau’s website, The Central Valley Project (CVP) is a complex, multi-purpose network of dams, reservoirs, canals, hydroelectric power plants and other facilities. The CVP ...

The federally operated Central Valley Project primarily serves agricultural land, providing as much as 5 million acre-feet of water to farms, according to the Bureau of Reclamation.

Cities that receive water from the project in the Central Valley and parts of the Bay Area were allocated 25% of their historical water use. “Conditions are very dry.

The denial of a rehearing may very well mean the end of the almost 20-year-old lawsuit over the renewal in 2005 of the long-term contracts between U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the ...

The federally run Central Valley Project was devised in 1933 to provide irrigation and municipal water to much of California's Central Valley by regulating and storing water in reservoirs in the ...

The Central Valley Project delivers on-average 5 million acre-feet of water annually for farms and 600,000 for municipal and industrial use, according to the Bureau of Reclamation.

Some farmers who rely on water from the federal Central Valley Project may receive more water than they’ve had in several years. Others will have to wait until mid-March to find out what their ...

The bill also would significantly rewrite the 1992 Central Valley Project Improvement Act, which redirects 800,000 acre-feet of water each year to fish and the environment.

SACRAMENTO — With California entering its third year of severe drought, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced a zero-water allocation for irrigation districts via the Central Valley Project ...

Central Valley Business Times, October 28, 2008 ... In the second case, the Modesto Irrigation District and other irrigators argued that ocean-going Central Valley steelhead fish should be removed ...