The News Review:
- California Farmers To Lose Primary Water Supply
- Feds: Less water for California agriculture this year
- China shuts chemical plant after water polluted
- Tracy may need to buy unused Lathrop Manteca surface water
- Burlington to vote on NAWS water | KXNet.com North Dakota News
California Farmers To Lose Primary Water Supply
Redrbit TX -
The Westlands Water District the CVP?s largest and nation’s largest overall includes just over 700 farmers on 600000 acres of land two-thirds of which will be made inactive by the water supply cutoff said Sarah Woolf a spokesman for the district. Woolf said layoffs are already underway in anticipation of the cutbacks. Some farmers will try to get by with unused water supplies from last year as well as local groundwater. Allocations might be increased later this year to 10 percent of contracted amounts federal officials say but only if a unexpectedly large amount of rain and snow in the area. The last time the CVP declared a zero supply was in 1992 Wirth said. However farmers ultimately received 25 percent of their typical allotment after conditions improved that year. Despite a series of recent winter storms California is in the third year of a drought that is on target to be the state’s worst ever.
Feds: Less water for California agriculture this year
Los Angeles Times CA -
Fields are being abandoned. The unemployment rate in the community of Mendota alone has soared to 40%. "The state Department of Water Resources announced today that it would be able to allocate only 15% supply to each of its contractors. "Reduced deliveries will require contractors to rely on dry water year contingency plans to meet their needs. If precipitation were to increase and hydrologic and reservoir conditions improve it is possible the allocation could rise in coming months" water resources officials said in a statement. Laura King Moon assistant general manager of State Water Contractors a nonprofit association of 27 public agencies across California that buys water from the state said "the drought has simply drawn the regulatory noose a little tighter. "The SWC delivers water to more than 750000 acres of farmland and to more than 25 million California residents.
China shuts chemical plant after water polluted
The Associated Press -
5 million people in the country’s east state media said Saturday. Biaoxin Chemical Company caused “massive” tap water pollution in Yancheng a city in east Jiangsu province forcing the closure of two out of three tap water plants the official Xinhua News Agency said. Water supplies were restored after a five-hour shutdown Friday Xinhua said. There were no reports of immediate health problems and the Yancheng government Web site posted a notice Saturday saying that drinking water is safe.
Tracy may need to buy unused Lathrop Manteca surface water
Manteca Bulletin CA -
com209\x2D249\x2D3532Tracy may need to buy unused Lathrop Manteca surface waterTracy\x26rsquo\x3Bs reliance on scarce Bureau of Reclamation water could end up bringing a bit of temporary fiscal relief to Lathrop\x26rsquo\x3Bs water budget. Another 33 percent comes from groundwater while the remaining 17 percent from the South County Surface Water Treatment Plant. Farm users are getting zero percent of their allocation in March while municipal users are being reduced significantly.
Burlington to vote on NAWS water | KXNet.com North Dakota News
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