Posted on 08/04/2021 11:57:27 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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.
The proposed regulation covers around 5,000 users in the Delta area, with exemptions only for human health and safety and non-consumptive uses. A majority of growers within the Delta itself have pre-1914 rights and have been managing to bring their crops to harvest.
(Excerpt) Read more at farmprogress.com ...
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/california-has-some-explaining-to-do-draining-resevoirs/
And maximize the negative impact to humans..
Out west, whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/water-and-drought/article253221993.html
“California regulators moved to cut off thousands of farmers from their main irrigation supplies Tuesday, voting to ban them from pulling water from the state’s main rivers and streams as the drought worsens.
The State Water Resources Control Board, following hours of debate and comment, voted 5-0 to issue “emergency curtailment” orders covering the rivers of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed — essentially the entire Central Valley.”
Fresh vege’s and fruit going to come at a cost in the next few months.
Larry Elder
He who smelta it delta it.
ah yes, Minimize “impacts to fish and wildlife.” Yes by all means. Never let the rights of people to interfere with the rights of fish.
Given the value of those water rights, this would seem to be a “taking” and require a fair valuation and compensation. Now, who wants to calculate what those water rights are worth to all those affected and send California the bill?
(sarc)
almonds are more important than people
so almonds should get the water
Time to cut off the two major canals diverting water from Northern Cal to Southern Cal and let Los Angeles and San Francisco demonstrate true sustainability. Of course that would mean a whole lot of folks would have to move out but that is happening anyway.
I live in California. Much of the produce in our supermarkets--even high-end ones like Whole Foods--comes from Mexico, including almost all of our tomatoes.
Driving down Int. 5 one just has to read the signs. With the rats in total control you know their ‘solution’ is nothing Larry Elder can do anything about. He’ll have a sounding board to speak from for just 15 months. At least he’ll be able to get his message across but 2022 would not be his to lose.
Ummm California doesn’t produce 80% of all of the US vegetables...
forget it Jake it’s California
California has mostly been in a “drought” for as long as I remember. They still are only because someone or someones like it that way.
Building reservoirs isn’t rocket surgery.
Yes it does, just not the ones that come from the ground
Fish are more important than people in CA.
It does produce a lot more than anywhere else:
Production in thousand cwt
California 435,922
Washington 39,329.9
Arizona 31,813.5
Florida 30,797.5
Wisconsin 22,723.7
North Carolina 21,506.5
Georgia 17,909.4
Minnesota 17,310.5
New York 13,761
Texas 12,841.7
This regulation will not survive the first court challenge, in spite of the kerfuffle here.
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