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California Orders Large Water Cuts for Farmers Amid Historic Drought - NBC News
California Orders Large Water Cuts for Farmers Amid Historic Drought - NBC News
The move shows California is sparing fewer and fewer users in the push to cut back on water using during the state's four-year drought.
"We are now at the point where demand in our system is outstripping supply for even the most senior water rights holders," Caren Trgovcich, chief deputy director of the water board.
The order applies to farmers and others whose rights to water were staked more than a century ago. Many farmers holding those senior-water rights contend the state has no authority to order cuts.