California Drought: Dry Central Valley Won’t Get Federal Water, Again

California state of emergency continues due to low water supply.

FILE- In this Feb. 4, 2014 file photo, a warning buoy sits on the dry, cracked bed of Lake Mendocino near Ukiah, Calif. New laws to deal with California's historic drought are among the more than 900 bills passed by the Legislature and signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown in 2014, that will take effect Jan. 1, 2015. AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File

The U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) announced Friday that it will not be delivering water to many of its Central Valley Project agricultural water contractors, continuing the governor’s state of emergency issued in January 2014.

Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. had issued the state of emergency due to alarmingly low water levels and called it the “driest year in recorded state history.” 

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