The San Francisco Baykeeper and others sued the federal government on Monday, accusing it of harming fish protected by the Endangered Species Act.
The Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the River and baykeeper claim that pumping excessive amounts of water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta hurts fish like the Central Valley steelhead, North American green sturgeon and Chinook salmon.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s operation of the Central Valley Project affects factors like water temperature and salinity. Those factors, along with the volume and direction of the water, cause fish to swim into harmful environments, the conservation groups say in their suit.
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