The Epoch Times By
SACRAMENTO—California water officials announced more hefty water cuts to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed, affecting thousands of users from Fresno to parts of Northern California, as the state continues in its third year of drought.
Earlier this week, the State Water Resources Control Board announced more cutbacks, which began Wednesday, June 8, affecting more than 400 public water systems and 4,252 water rights. The cutback will restrict cities, agricultural workers, and growers from pumping water from the rivers and streams in the delta.
Farmers, already affected by several other conservation efforts imposed by the state, will have to find other sources of water.
“Without that surface supply to rely upon during California’s historically normal periods of back to back dry years, replacement groundwater becomes the only alternative for cities and farmers to survive,” reads a statement by Kristi Diener, founder of the California Water for Food and People Movement, a grassroots group made up of agricultural workers advocating for water reforms.
