As California faces a likely fourth consecutive year of drought, state water managers Thursday announced a meager 5 percent water allocation for 2023.
While allocations could change based on precipitation levels during the next few months, officials at the state Department of Water Resources are bracing for more bad news.
Also, Lake Oroville, the State Water Project's largest reservoir, is at about 55 percent of its average for this time of year, slightly better than last year's historic low volume. The ongoing drought, the worst since 1976-1977, and lack of deliveries from the state and the Federal Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Project—which provided just 25 percent of allocations this year—left drinking water systems scrambling to find new sources of water and redoubling conservation efforts.
"This initial allocation serves as a stark reminder that the drought emergency is not over," Valley Water board chair pro tem John Varela said. "Our customers have delivered on that 15 percent and that's what's made the difference that's allowed us to make it through the drought thus far," Stevenson said.
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