BYRON, Calif. — Giant pumps hum inside a warehouse-like building, pushing water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta into the California Aqueduct, where it travels more than 400 miles ...

The Harvey O. Banks Pumping Plant, photographed Wednesday, pumps water from the Delta into the California Aqueduct. The John E. Skinner Delta Fish Protective Facility fish protective facility ...

It smells like cucumbers.It tops out at 2 to 2.8 inches in length. It is a luminous silvery blue color. That is what a Delta ...

were pumped into the Delta Mendota Canal and California Aqueduct, which is only 50 percent of the capacity of the state and federal pumps. During the same four months in 2023–24, another ...

The Banks plant, he explains, lifts water 250 vertical feet, by way of the plant’s powerful pumps, from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta into the California Aqueduct. Within this 450-mile long ...

AS YOU DRIVE through the Central Valley, it is hard to miss the iconic California Aqueduct, which moves millions ... and irrigation pumps, as well as heavy agricultural machinery like tractors.

The California Aqueduct, seen here in the Antelope Valley ... water pumped higher than anywhere else in the world. Fourteen pumps drive the water over the mountains. The aqueduct was constructed ...

A groundwater agency on the western fringes of Kern County has taken the unprecedented step of banning all pumping from wells along the California Aqueduct for a 30-mile stretch. The move is ...