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Senator Anna Caballero, D-Merced, was unable to garner enough votes from her colleagues in the Assembly to pass her water bill.

One of the world’s most productive agricultural districts is under new leadership and plotting a course through a more turbulent water future—balancing wild swings in federal allocations while drastically cutting groundwater pumping.

The Department of Water Resources on Thursday bumped water allocations to 100% for the first time in nearly two decades, and the Bureau of Reclamation immediately followed suit.