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Calif. Faces Water Limits over Threatened Smelt

By Tamara Keith

Published December 26, 2007 at 1:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 16 years ago.

A federal ruling to protect a tiny threatened fish is about to have very real consequences for water supplies in California.

As early as this week, state and federal water managers will have to limit pumping in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta. That water supplies 25 million state residents and millions of acres of farm land.

Tamara Keith reports from member station KQED.

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Tamara Keith

Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. In that time, she has chronicled the final years of the Obama administration, covered Hillary Clinton's failed bid for president from start to finish and thrown herself into documenting the Trump administration, from policy made by tweet to the president's COVID diagnosis and the insurrection. In the final year of the Trump administration and the first year of the Biden administration, she focused her reporting on the White House response to the COVID-19 pandemic, breaking news about global vaccine sharing and plans for distribution of vaccines to children under 12.