Long story short: it's artificial. It was an accident during railroad construction back in the early 1900s. By the time they rediverted the water sources, it was already a massive inland body of water. Wikipedia has a good write up on it~~~~
Got it. I still see the water diversion from San Juaquin as part of the larger attack on food, just an earlier shot. Was there really no compromise on the Delta Smelt?
Not when the state as a whole builds soccer mom housing tracts in the middle of literal desert like Palm Springs or Temecula without thought of how to provide water to the citizens.