In a universe where California has prioritized water storage investments, Sites Reservoir is brimming with nearly a million acre-feet of fresh water. Over the last two months, the people of meta-California have diverted about 450,000 acre-feet of excess flow destined for the Delta, leaving plenty of natural outflow for ecosystems.
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In our universe, however, the project authority can only imagine what such a California would look like. The proponents released an estimate on Thursday that factored up 2023 flows and the recent storms to conclude the reservoir would have hit 80% capacity by this point. The authority made similar projections amid the wet winter last year.
Fritz Durst, chair of the authority’s board of directors, said that in the hotter-drier world that is fast becoming California’s reality, the state has no time to waste in building more storage.
