Fig. 3: Average percentage of months that environmental water demands are met (lines) and range of months that environmental objectives are met (shaded area) from 1996–2021.
From: Storing and managing water for the environment is more efficient than mimicking natural flows
Panels show environmental water management alternatives, with pass-through flows in dry years (A) and wet years (B), passthrough flows with 1.54 B m3 of cold-water storage in dry years (C) and wet years (D), and an Environmental Water Budget (EWB) that includes equal portions of inflow and reservoir storage for dry years (E) and wet years (F), and EWB with 1.54 Bm3 of cold-water storage in dry years (G) and wet years (H). Dry years include critically dry, dry, and below-normal Sacramento River Index water year types, and wet years include above-normal and wet year types.
