Hydrosphere: rivers, lakes, bays and groundwater

• State’s water imbalance: surplus vs. deficit?
• Marine West Coast (Cfb) in the north vs.Desert (BS) in the south
• mass movement south via California Water Project
  

• Most water is transferred via complicate water system
  • Federal, State, and Local projects
  • Shasta, Oroville, Clearlake, Folsom, Hetch Hetchy...(DWR link)
  • California Aquaduct (1972)
  • Salton Sea (ancient sink / man-made)
    

• Major rivers
• Sacramento - largest river (cfs)
• Klamath River / Trinity River / Eel / Russian
• Sierra Watershed (10+ major drainages)
• San Joaquin
• Los Angeles
• Colorado (American Nile)
  
  
• Major lakes and bays
• Tahoe - largest alpine lake
• Mono Lake - North America’s oldest lake (700,000)
• Tulare Lake (reclaimed - now extinct)
• Goose Lake
• Humboldt Bay; San Francisco Bay; San Diego Bay
• remaining bodies are reservoirs (over 1,400 dams)
  
  
• Ground water
• Sacramento Valley aquifer
• San Joaquin Valley aquifer
• Butte Valley, Siskiyou Co. (USGS link)