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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: Ron who wrote (339903)6/12/2021 12:26:25 AM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 362219
 
Santa Clara taps their own water aquifers and dams collecting local rain for 45% of their water.
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Fifty five percent of Santa Clara's water is imported.

1.) Santa Clara shares the imported water from the Hetch Hetchy dam in the Sierras with San Francisco, Alameda and San Mateo counties - and they'll probably continue to receive close to their same allocation.

2.) The federal Central Valley Project will continue to deliver 64% of requested water to Santa Clara, only because city water use has a higher priority than farm irrigation.

3.) Santa Clara bought into the California State Water Project, which will deliver only 20% of requested supply. This will have different impacts on each customer. For Santa Clara this means rationing water by 15%.

Palm Springs also bought into the California State Water Project, which they're not physically connected to, and they provide this water to Los Angeles in return for an equal quantity of water from the water Los Angeles brings in from the Colorado River from their Parker Dam. Palm Springs uses the Colorado River water to replenish their Coachella Valley underground aquifer. Cut-backs from the Colorado River and the California Water Project will turn-off this replenishment water for Palm Springs. Not a problem for a 20 year drought.

San Diego receives Colorado River water from Los Angeles, but when there's no surplus, San Diego receives nothing. So San Diego is busy building additional desalination plants.

Similar to the Hetch Hetchy dam, the original source of water for Los Angeles is the St Francis dam in the Owens Valley in addition to local aquifers and dams trapping local rain.
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