Mark Twain is credited with the famous remark: “Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting about.”
And there is pretty much no better example than the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which over the last 150 years has undergone epic transformation and been the epicenter of equally epic political battles.
Scroll through the timeline to get a sense of the modern evolution (or de-evolution, depending on how you look at it) of California’s largest water source.
(It may be easier to view in fullscreen mode: to do so, click on button at the bottom right-hand corner of the timeline)