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From page 11...
... Millions of acres of arid and semi-arid farm lands depend upon the Delta for supplies of irrigation water, and approximately 25 million Californians depend upon transport of water through the Delta for their urban water supplies. Population growth anticipated for the first half of the 21st century is likely to create additional water demands despite significant reductions in per capita consump 11 
From page 12...
... 12    A Review of California's Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan  FIGURE  2.    The Bay  Delta  Watershed.   SOURCE:    Reprinted,  with  permission,  from  Na‐ tional Resources Defense Council (http://www.nrdc.org)
From page 13...
... Background    13  FIGURE 3. The Sacramento‐San Joaquin Delta in California. San Francisco Bay, an integral  part of the system, is just to the west.  SOURCE:  Reproduced from NRC (2010b) , mod‐ ified from FWS (2008)
From page 14...
... However, recent analyses of potential precipitation resulting from different anticipated climate conditions have changed the criteria employed by the state to project water availability. Despite statewide conservation efforts, which are particularly pronounced in the urban sector, increasing restrictions on diversions have reduced the amount of water available for delivery under the terms of SWP and CVP water supply contracts.
From page 15...
... Resolution of these problems is complicated by water scarcity generally and because alternative solutions impose differing degrees of scarcity on different groups of stakeholders. Additional allocation problems arise from a complex system of public and private water rights and contractual obligations to deliver water from the federal CVP and California's SWP.
From page 16...
... The species that occupied Delta habitats historically were adapted to accommodate variability in flow, quality, and all of the various factors that they help determine. The history of human development of the Delta, both of land use and water development, is a history of attempts to constrain this environmental variability, to reduce environmental uncertainty and to make the Delta landscape more suitable for farming and as a source of reliable water supplies.
From page 17...
... Background    17  FIGURE 4. The Sacramento‐San Joaquin Delta in California, highlighting the Delta levees,  2006.  San  Francisco  Bay,  an  integral  part  of  the  system,  is  just  to  the  west.    SOURCE:   Reprinted, with permission, from Lund et al. (2010) .  Copyright by Public Policy Institute of  California. 
From page 18...
... In addition to the activities already mentioned, many other efforts are ongoing in the Delta such as, for example, a recent report of the State Water Resources Control Board on flows, recent biological opinions concerning listed species, The California Water Plan, The Recovery Plan for Central Valley Salmonids, and the Interim Federal Action Plan. The BDCP is a habitat conservation plan that can be incorporated into the Delta Plan described above if specific criteria specified in California's water legislation are met (draft BDCP, pp.
From page 19...
... /Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that will evaluate the range of alternatives for providing ecosystem restoration, water conveyance and other management alternatives identified in the BDCP.


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