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........ "' ... <<.; .i lJ .~ STATE OF CALIFORNIA The Resources Agency of California Department of Water Resources EDMUND G. BROWN. Governor HUGO FISHER, Administrator WILLIAM E. WARNE, Director THE STATE WATER PROJECT--1963 Seventy percent of California I s water supply originate s in the northe rn third of the State. Seventy-seven percent of the water need is in the southern two-thirds. This simple fact, coupled with a growing population that has put California first among the nation's states, has given rise to one of the most imaginative engi- neering developments in the history of man- -the State Water Project. Californians themselves decided to go ahead with the plan at an election in November, 1960, when they voted $1. 75 billion in bonds to finance the distribution of water from areas of surplus to areas of need. The results of that decision are already beginning to be seen. The first water deliveries under the project are being made through the South Bay Aqueduct into the Livermore Valley in Alameda County. Work is under way on Oroville Dam, key unit of the project, and on the California Aqueduct, the 444-mile long man-made river that will take water into Central and Southern California. Water that would otherwise flow uselessly into the ocean will be pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, through valleys and over mountain ranges, to serve populous cities such as Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, as well as the burgeon- ing suburbs in counties ranging from Marin on the north to San Diego on the south. First deliveries of water into Castaic Reservoir, Los Angeles County, and into Perris Reservoir, Riverside County, are planned for 1971 and 1972. Thus California of today keeps faith with the future. - PIO 1 April 1963 -