State and federal water managers announced Wednesday increased deliveries for millions of Californians in response to hopeful hydrologic conditions that materialized over the past several weeks.
After a series of powerful storms brought rain and snow to much of California in December and January, increased reservoir levels led the state's Department of Water Resources to set its delivery forecast at 30 percent of requested water supplies for the 29 public water agencies that draw from the State Water Project to serve 27 million people and 750,000 acres of farmland.
Also on Wednesday, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation published its initial water allocation numbers for the Central Valley Project, the state's other water storage and delivery backbone.Deliveries for most of the urban and industrial water users that draw from that system were set at 75 percent of historical usage, up from just 25 percent last year.
Currently, snowpack levels for the Sierra Nevada are well above normal and several of the state's reservoirs are filled to at or near their historical average for this time of year, with a few notably large exceptions like Trinity, New Melones and Shasta. While Wednesday's announcements are welcome news to drinking water systems and farmers across the state, Golden State Salmon Association president John McManus said the decision to allow some agricultural users to receive 100 percent of their water allocations comes at the expense of fish populations and the people who rely on them for jobs.
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