Farmers in California face severe water cuts due to drought

Regulators in California have ordered farmers and others who hold some of the state’s strongest water rights to stop pumping from three major waterways in one of the country’s prime farm regions. These are in the Sacramento, San Joaquin and delta watersheds. These waterways provide water to farms and cities in the agricultural-rich Central Valley and beyond.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 13 June 2015.

This restriction is in addition to water curtailment announced earlier this year to cities and towns and to farmers with less iron-clad water rights.
This would be the first time since the drought of 1977 that the state has directed a significant number of senior water rights holders to stop pumping because of the present day drought.
The water cuts would affect a whole lot of farmers – like in the San Joaquin area where small families grow permanent crops like apricots and walnuts. They do not have any back-up supplies in wells or reservoirs. As a result, plenty of trees would wither away and die, and a lot of people would go out of business.
Farmers have to realize and accept the fact that the curtailments are not being done by choice but are a reaction to the reality that water supply is shrinking.
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