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Part of the State Water Project (SWP), the Clifton Court Forebay serves as ground zero for the starting point of the California Aqueduct. It is located at the southern end of the San Joaquin Delta. (File photo by BCN)
Part of the State Water Project (SWP), the Clifton Court Forebay serves as ground zero for the starting point of the California Aqueduct. It is located at the southern end of the San Joaquin Delta. (File photo by BCN)

Environmental groups on Friday sued the California Department of Water Resources for approving a plan to divert water from the environmentally sensitive Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta to Central and Southern California.

The lawsuit says the water agency failed to consider ecological and wildlife harms in giving the go-ahead for the giant tunnel known as the Delta Conveyance Project taking water from Northern California.

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