Mark Cowin, director of the California Department of Water Resources, whose agency would own and operate the proposed new export tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, discusses the agency's evolution from water "extraction" to sustainable and integrated water "management."

Next to New Orleans, Sacramento has the greatest flood risk of any major urban area in America. Most residents live below the water level flowing by in the Sacramento and American rivers. Tim Washburn, Director of Planning for the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency, discusses how river levees...

Felicia Marcus, a member of the California State Water Resources Control Board, talks about the governance of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and why she is optimistic on warring water interest reaching a compromise on the management of the estuary as both a major ecosystem and heart of the...