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Facing ‘Dire Water Shortages,’ California Bans Delta Pumping In an aggressive move to address “immediate and dire water shortages,” California’s water board today unanimously approved emergency regulations to temporarily stop thousands of farmers, landowners and others from diverting water from from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed. The new regulations — the first to take such widespread action for the massive Delta watershed stretching from Fresno to the border with Oregon — could lead to formal curtailment orders for about 5,700 water rights holders as soon as Au...

At a more than three-hour workshop today to discuss the proposal, State Water Resources Control Board officials said the status of the Delta was so severe that they had to take urgent action. The board will vote on the regulation next week, and it could lead to formal curtailment orders as soon as August 16. “We don’t take this action lightly,” Eileen Sobeck, executive director of the water board, said in a press briefing last week. “We know that it’s going to impose hardship on folks.”  During the last drought, in 2015, six irrigation districts serving growers sued the state ove...

A 'megadrought' in California is expected to lead to water shortages for production of everything from avocados to almonds, and could cause prices to rise gkay@businessinsider.com (Grace Kay) California is facing its worst drought in four years. As water levels continue to fall, farmers have left large portions of their fields unseeded. The state's $50 billion agriculture industry supplies over 25% of the nation's food. Popular Searches The state is already facing its worst water shortage in four years and the its driest season has only just begun, according to data from the N...

The worst drought in years for California threatens to push food prices even higher as farmers struggle to maintain their crops.

Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021 The California State Board of Food and Agriculture will be discussing recent drought actions and hear about proposed programs to assist farmers and ranchers at its meeting next week.  The board will hear from state officials and agricultural stakeholders on drought response as well as proposed funding to further sustainable agriculture as part of the Governor’s proposed $100 billion California Comeback Plan. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 1, 2021 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. via GoToWebinar. “The Governor has proposed a $5.1 billion comprehensive dr...