Brontë Wittpenn/The ChronicleĪ family reunion to commemorate the 100th anniversary of a Mariposa family’s homestead quickly went south as the Oak Fire descended. Little of Chuck Carter’s home remains after the Oak Fire swept through their family ranch in Mariposa County. Drought data is updated weekly and provides a look at statewide conditions, labeling regions of identified drought by intensity as California monitors the effects of a third consecutive year of extremely dry climates. Tracking California’s drought: Examine statewide drought impact zones as well as water shortages and reservoir levels for Bay Area water districts with our updated map on the The Chronicle’s Drought Map & Tracker. The Newsom administration hopes to clear these hurdles with alterations it has made to the plans of his predecessors.
The idea, however, has faced longtime opposition as well as funding shortfalls.
The proposed tunnel would allow water shipments to bypass the delta’s sensitive wetlands and aging water infrastructure, thereby protecting and even boosting water supplies for the Bay Area, Southern California and farmland in between. The estimated $16 billion pipeline is designed to better move water from the state’s wet, rural north to drier, more populated points south.
Gavin Newsom’s office renewed its commitment on Wednesday to launching California’s biggest water project in half a century, unveiling a newly configured plan for a 45-mile conveyance tunnel through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.