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Most of California is experiencing an extreme drought, with May and June the warmest and driest on record since 1896. Lake Oroville, one of California’s largest reservoirs, is expected to reach a new historic low in October.
Demand for water from rivers and streams has outstripped supply 16-fold in the San Joaquin River watershed and three-fold in the Sacramento River, according to State Water Resources Control Board staff. Dwindling flows risk salty backwash from the Pacific tainting supplies for drinking, farmers and fish.
Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, told the water board that “this year there’s plenty of pain to go around.
Facing ‘Dire Water Shortages,’ California Bans Delta Pumping
In an aggressive move to address “immediate and dire water shortages,” California’s water board today unanimously approved emergency regulations to temporarily stop thousands of farmers, landowners and others from diverting water from from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed.
The new regulations the first to take such widespread action for the massive Delta watershed stretching from Fresno to the border with Oregon could lead to formal curtailment orders for about 5,700 water rights holders as soon as Aug. 16. The decision comes on the heels of curtailment orders issued to nearly 900 water users along the drought-stricken Russian River, with 222 more expected next week.
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Merced County launches ‘Support our Restaurants’ campaign in to help local eateries [Merced Sun-Star (Merced, Calif.)]
Jan. 9 Merced County and its six cities are launching a “Support our Restaurants” campaign in an effort to help local restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The goal of the campaign is to use social media to promote local restaurants that have been impacted by the State’s COVID-19 restrictions regarding on-site dining.
“It’s been devastating,” said Merced Mayor Matt Serratto. “Many local restaurants are struggling for their survival.”
Serratto says a lot of small businesses have struggled during the pandemic, with a lot of spending dollars being shifted toward big businesses.