CFBF Leader on Water Shortage, CVP Zero Allocation

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…projects authorized by the Proposition 1 water bond and on congressional reform of environmental laws. “The CVP announcement is both saddening and maddening,” Wenger said. “It’s saddening because the continued…

Farm Bureau Encourages House and Senate to Work Together on Water Legislation

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…protections for invasive fish species; restore certainty for Central Valley Project water supply contracts; facilitate water transfers; establish a stakeholder oversight panel for the CVP Restoration Fund; strengthen requirements to…

Statement of Westlands Water District on California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2014

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…Project (CVP) and the California State Water Project (SWP). The legislation introduced today would provide much needed relief for the public water agencies that receive water from these projects and…

DWR Drops State Water Project Allocation to Zero, Seeks to Preserve Remaining Supplies

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…(55 percent of its historical average for the date). Shasta Lake north of Redding, California’s and the federal Central Valley Project’s (CVP) largest reservoir, is at 36 percent of its…