This concept suggests the Delta provides a common resource, including fresh water supply for all Delta water users, and all those whose actions have an impact on the Delta environment share in the obligation to restore, maintain and protect Delta resources, including water supplies, water quality, and natural habitat. Common Program Six programs for Water Use Efficiency, Water Quality, Levee System Integrity, Ecosystem Restoration, Water Transfers, and Watershed Management Coordiantion that are essentially the same for each of the three Phase II alternatives. The components for the Phase II Alternatives include a component for Delta conveyance, a component for storage, and the four common programs. The operation of a groundwater basin in combination with a surface water storage and conveyance system. Water is stored in the ground water basin for later use in place of or to supplement surface supplies.
Water is stored by intentionally recharging the basin during years of above-average water supply.
Conveyance A pipeline, canal, natural channel or other similar facility that transports water from one location to another. Core actions are no longer viewed as a single set of actions. Rather, these actions are now distributed between the six common programs included in each of the three Phase II Alternatives. The combined water flow entering the Delta at a given time from the Sacramento River, San Joaquin River, and other tributaries. Delta Islands Islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta protected by levees.