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California to Institute Extreme Water Reductions for Thousands of Farmers
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Most of California is experiencing an extreme drought, with May and June the warmest and driest on record since 1896. Lake Oroville, one of California’s largest reservoirs, is expected to reach a new historic low in October.
Demand for water from rivers and streams has outstripped supply 16-fold in the San Joaquin River watershed and three-fold in the Sacramento River, according to State Water Resources Control Board staff. Dwindling flows risk salty backwash from the Pacific tainting supplies for drinking, farmers and fish.
Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, told the water board that “this year there’s plenty of pain to go around.
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Amid intensifying drought, state water regulators voted Tuesday to enact a drastic emergency order that will bar thousands of Californians primarily farmers from using stream and river water.
California’s complex water rights system is designed to allocate water use during times of shortage and such curtailments, while rare, are not unheard of. But the scope of Tuesday’s order which will apply to thousands of senior water rights across a wide swath of the state is unprecedented, officials said.
While the move has been protested by some farmers, irrigation districts and others, California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross called the decision “a necessary step,” saying the fact that senior water rights holders were included “speaks to the severity of the hydrology and what climate change has presented this year.”
State moves forward with water restrictions for thousands of farms and water agencies
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Avenue 21 divides a green almond grove and dried grasslands as temperatures soar and drought continues to grip the state in Madera last month.Brontë Wittpenn/The Chronicle
As California’s drought escalates, thousands of farms and water agencies from Fresno to the Oregon border, including some in the Bay Area, will face new water restrictions under plans advanced Tuesday by state regulators.
The sweeping cuts, enacted by the State Water Board, come in the form of a rare application of California’s water-rights hierarchy. They force property owners who have less seniority to stop drawing water from rivers and creeks in the vast Sacramento-San Joaquin River watershed.
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