Conveyance — Regional/Local (Resource Management Strategy)

Conveyance provides for the movement of water, geographically connecting the supply to the demand. Conveyance infrastructure includes natural watercourses as well as human-made facilities like canals, pipelines, and flood bypasses. Examples of natural watercourses include streams, rivers, floodplains, and groundwater aquifers.

Conveyance facilities range in size from small, local, end-user distribution systems to the large systems that move water to and from distant areas. Conveyance facilities also require associated infrastructure such as pumping plants, diversion structures, fish ladders, and fish screens.

Regional and local water supply conveyance is discussed in this resource management strategy report.