California Outlines Plan for Scaled Back Giant Water Tunnel State water officials say the project is badly needed to modernize the state's infrastructure in the face of climate change.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said in 2019 he would downsize the state’s plan for tunneling around the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to deliver water more easily to Southern California. On Wednesday ...

California water tunnel hangs over budget talks as legislators challenge Gov. Newsom's plan FILE – A sign opposing a plan to build a giant tunnel to ship water to Southern California is ...

A new plan to reroute how water moves from wetter Northern California to drier Southern California would ferry some of it through a single, 45-mile (72-kilometer) underground tunnel.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration said Thursday it will now cost more than $20 billion to build a giant tunnel aimed at catching more water when it rains and storing it to better ...

LOS ANGELES — A Southern California water agency has approved key funding needed to support plans for a giant underground tunnel that would reroute a big part of the state’s water supply.

The Delta Conveyance Project would add 45 miles of underground tunnel to California’s aging system of channels, aqueducts, dams and reservoirs that move water around the state.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration said Thursday it will now cost more than $20 billion to build a giant tunnel aimed at catching more water when it rains ...

California's long-gestating plan to construct a massive tunnel that will pump water from the state's Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta to points south will cost $20 billion, according to a new ...

FILE – A sign opposing a plan to build a giant tunnel to ship water to Southern California is displayed near Freeport, California, on May 2, 2016. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has a plan to ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration said Thursday it will now cost more than $20 billion to build a giant tunnel aimed at catching more water when it rains and ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration says it will cost more than $20 billion to build a giant tunnel to capture and store more water.