Water is central to life in California, home to the world's largest, most productive, and most controversial water system. Sourced from the CARA collections and culled from a comprehensive timeline of California's agricultural history, developed in 1987 by Axel Borg, Distinguished Wine and Food Bibliographer, UC Davis Library, that sprang from his work, A Bibliography of California Experiment Station Publications: 1877 to 1975, this timeline presents the history of how the state of California has harnessed water, and how it has changed the landscape.