An emergency order would allow the state water board to begin issuing stop-diversion notices.
California's State Water Resources Control Board has signaled it may soon approve a drought emergency regulation curtailing diversions within the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta region for landowners with pre-1914 water rights -- the most senior of rights in the state.
The board will consider during its Aug. 3-4 meeting issuing the notices throughout the vast Delta watershed to protect water supplies necessary to meet human health and safety needs, preserve stored water needed to prevent salinity from the ocean from intruding into the Delta and to minimize impacts to fish and wildlife, according to state officials.
The regulation would curtail all pre-1914 appropriative water rights in the San Joaquin River watershed, and would affect diverters in the Sacramento River watershed with a priority date of 1883 or later, the California Cattlemen's Association explained in a bulletin to members Some water rights with earlier priority dates may also be curtailed within certain Sacramento River tributaries, according to the CCA...MORE
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If they don't use water for growing food, can they eat concrete?
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