Conveyance is infrastructure providing for the movement of water. Conveyances are typically thought of as human-made structures, such as a canal or aqueduct, but can also be natural watercourses such as a river or stream.

The State Water Project’s California Aqueduct, which moves water from Northern California to cities and farms in Central and Southern California, and the federal Central Valley Project’s Friant-Kern Canal, which delivers water from Millerton Lake near Fresno to farms and cities in the central and southern San Joaquin Valley, are examples of human-made conveyances.

Updated November 2025.