The federal Central Valley Project provides water for the 444-mile-long Central Valley, mainly its agriculture. It doesn’t send any water into Southern California, a fact Trump either doesn’t ...

The SWP is a water storage and delivery system extending more than 700 miles, two-thirds the length of California. According to a map from the DWR, the SWP is made up of five field divisions.

Lake Oroville is seen filled with water in Oroville, California, on April 16, 2023. Lake Oroville is the largest reservoir in the State Water Project. Josh Edelson/Getty ...

Trump may have been primed to think this because, in his mind, the Fresno golf course deal fell apart because of a lack of water. “I was going to take it over and do a beautiful job,” he told ...

You don't get any evaporation because the ambient temperature is so cold and the water's cold," he said. The bureau does not measure the water evaporation from the Sacramento River, which flows ...

As President Donald Trump prepares to tour wildfire damage in California, he’s zeroing in on one of his frequent targets for criticism: State water policy. Since the fires broke out Jan. 7 ...

This week the California Department of Water Resources said that it was planning for a dry 2025, announcing that the initial allocation forecast for the State Water Project is just 5%.