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Report on Voluntary Diversion Reduction Program Among in-Delta Riparian Water Right Claimants

Michael Patrick George | March 11th, 2016


Facing a fourth consecutive year of drought in 2015 and consequential threat of curtailments, farmers in the Delta proposed a voluntary program to significantly reduce their surface water diversions during the critical summer growing season. This is a report describing the context, origin, objectives, regulatory framework, implementation and results of that program.

Keywords

drought, water rights