Items Tagged with 'drought emergency declaration'

The ruling sets a limit on the water board’s authority. But the agency retains several regulatory tools for curtailing senior water rights, and lawmakers could add more.

The Department of Water Resources is developing a California version of the U.S. Drought Monitor.

The state water board has approved an emergency regulation enabling the agency to curtail senior water rights along two key watersheds in Northern California.

The Newsom administration is drafting an emergency regulation to curtail senior water rights for thousand of farmers who depend on deliveries through the Delta.

Farm groups worry about a repeat of the economic losses suffered in the valley during the last drought.