USA-DROUGHT/CALIFORNIA California curtails some senior water rights due to drought

Record ID: 150985

  • Title: USA-DROUGHT/CALIFORNIA California curtails some senior water rights due to drought
  • Date: 12th June 2015
  • Summary: CENTRAL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF FARMLANDS, WATER SPRINKLERS, AND BARREN FIELDS VARIOUS OF DRIED TREES VARIOUS OF FARMLANDS WIDE OF STREET SIGN READING "SERIOUS DROUGHT: HELP SAVE WATER" CLOSE-UP OF STREET SIGN READING "SERIOUS DROUGHT: HELP SAVE WATER" FOLSOM, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF DRIED UP BED OF LAKE F
  • Embargoed: 27th June 2015 13:00
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  • Story Text: California's water board curtailed senior water rights on Friday (June 12) in the state's Delta, San Joaquin and Sacramento regions due to drought in the first move of its kind during the current drought, officials said.
    The curtailment affects more than 100 senior water rights holders, with most of those located near the Sacramento River, the State Water Resources Control Board said in a statement.
    This marks the first time since the late 1970s that California has curtailed water diversions to senior water rights holders in the state.
    The order will impose curtailments on the use of water by these rights holders for irrigation and provision of livestock, the board statement said.
    The order for the Delta, San Joaquin and Sacramento regions is aimed at water users with rights dating to 1903 or later, while those with rights before that date can continue to operate without restrictions, the board statement said.
    California is in its fourth year of a devastating drought that has also prompted Governor Jerry Brown to impose the state's first-ever mandatory cutbacks in urban water use, up to 36 percent in some communities.
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