1. Top Five Reasons Ventura County Needs WaterFix
Protecting Our Largest Water Supply: The distribution system for Ventura County is typically 100% dependent on Northern California supplies.
Sustaining Our Largest Cities: Oxnard, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Camarillo, Moorpark and Port Hueneme import 100% Northern California water.
Preserving Agriculture: The groundwater resources that much of Ventura County's farming industry relies upon are largely dependent imported state water.
Ventura County relies on supplies of imported water from Northern California to an extent unlike other
counties within Southern California. The reliability of this supply for Ventura County and all of Southern
California is at risk due to pumping restrictions, deteriorating environmental conditions in the Sacramento-
San Joaquin Delta and an aging water system that was not designed to meet today’s challenges. State and
federal agencies want to modernize this system through a project known as the California WaterFix that has both water delivery and ecosystem benefits. Here are five potential benefits from the project for over 600,000 Ventura County residents.
Surviving Droughts: The water stored to meet drought and emergency needs for 75% of the Ventura County population comes entirely from Northern California.
Capturing Big Storms: A modernized system could reliably capture enough water to refill reservoirs and groundwater banks along the water conveyance path.