Editorial: The feds can curb a foolish California water giveaway
by Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Oct 19, 2022
3 minutes
About 15 miles north of Fresno sits Millerton Lake, a reservoir created in the 1930s when the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation built Friant Dam on the San Joaquin River. The dam provides irrigation water for fields and groves in much of the San Joaquin Valley, but it wiped out the Chinook salmon migration that had existed on the river for tens of thousands of years.
It also threatened the rights of landowners to divert
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