Map Assignment 2:

A. Using the water project resource maps, create a California Water

Supply Map using the blank California outline map provided.
Your map should include:
Shasta Dam
Imperial Dam

Parker Dam
Oroville Dam

Hoover Dam

Folsom Dam

Feather River Dam

California Aqueduct

Colorado River Aqueduct

Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct Los Angeles Aqueduct

All American Canal

Friant Kern Canal

Tehama-Colusa Canal
Colorado River

Kern River

Feather River

American River

Owens River

Joaquin River

Sacramento River

Salton Sea

B. The Conservation Connection: Water Supply and Demand

Read pages 3-5 of The Conservation Connection located with this
assignment and answer the following questions.
Aqueduct: channels, pipelines and tunnels, carry water across land and over or
through mountains. This water reservoirs might be large storage tanks or lakes
formed by dams.
Aquifer: is an underground layer of water bearing permeable rock or
unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt) from which groundwater can be
extracted using a water well.
Groundwater: water that soaks into the ground collects in basins called
aquifers. They are not like lakes; they are more like sponges collecting water
between particles of sand, and gravel cracks in the rocks,Overdraft: overdraft

occurs when water removal exceeds water recharge. Reservoir: is a natural or

artificial lake, storage pond, or impoundment from dam which is used to store
water.Surface water: water in top of the ground is surface water (lakes, rivers,
streams, and oceans are surface water)
NOTE: California has 500 aquifers.
1. What happens to all the rain that falls?
2. What is surface water? Surface water is water on top of the ground. We can
see this water in lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans.
3. What is ground water? Ground water is water that soaks into the ground,
collected in basins called aquifers. They are like sponges holding water in
spaces between particles of sand and gravel and in cracks in rocks. Some
aquifers can be as small as a small pool while others can be miles long and
hundreds of feet deep.
4. How does water get into the ground? The water gets there by soaking into
the ground from RAIN, IRRIGATION OF CROPS, RIVER AND STREAM BEDS,
and RECHARGED PONDS WHERE WATER IS PURPOSELY SPREAD ON THE
GROUND TO REFILL THE AQUIFERS.
5. How do we get the water out of the ground? WELLS ARE DRILLED IN TO
THE GROUND AND ELECTRIC PUMPS PUSH THE WATER UP TO THE
SURFACE
6. What are the effects of overdraft? The effects of overdraft are 1.The ground
may compact and never be able to hold water again 2. Land may sink, causing
buildings, roads and pipelines to break 3. Plants depending on the ground
water may die
7. In California, how much of the water we use comes from surface water and
how much from groundwater? 2/3 comes from surface water, and 1/3 comes
from groundwater
8. In what category are most of your personal uses of water? Most of my
personal uses for water comes from urban water use.
9. How does the use of water in each sector affect you? The use of water
affects me because we consume this precious liquid for drinking, to food. We
also need water to grow our crops, and the prices rise when the industries have
a shortage because they pay more in delivering the water.

10. So whats the problem?

Money: it is expensive to build and maintain the aqueducts and reservoirs, and
in addition to that the amount of electricity used to bring the water through
the mountains, and to lift is also expensive.
The environment: the consequences of taking the water out of the rivers and
streams are negative to the plants and animals and to the people as well. It is
not the water companies fault because even though they take only small
amounts of the precious liquid, the aqueducts, pumping plants, dams, and
reservoirs take up large space and get flooded therefore the environment gets
affected, and the plants, animals and people that live around the area.
I think the third problem is more expensive food, and other services because
water is used for everything, from agrarian purposes to beauty purposes given
the fact USAs beauty industry is really a big deal