Excerpt from Delta Water Requirements: Appendix to Bulletin No. 76, Delta Water Facilities The watersheds of the Central Valley of California come to gether in the sacramento-san Joaquin Delta. The availability of fresh water in De1ta channels depends upon seasonal water supply resulting from precipitation and from melting snow in the Central Valley water sheds. Upstream deve1opment during the past 60 years has seen an increase in water use and water storage with a resulting increase in the intensity and area of salinity incursion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.