California farmers to lose access to the state’s largest watershed as drought worsens
By unanimous vote, water regulators approved an emergency framework that will soon bar thousands of farmers and potentially cities from taking surface water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
A rock dam across the West False River in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta takes shape.(Courthouse News photo / Nick Cahill)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) California water regulators on Tuesday ordered thousands of farmers and ranchers to stop pulling from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in the latest escalation of the state’s bitter drought.
The State Water Resources Control Board blamed the unprecedented emergency action, which will bar farmers in some of the state’s most productive farmland from using river water for the first time, on the worsening drought and climate change. They said the drastic action was necessary to save endangered salmon, protect drinking water and pr
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