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State: Regional water users need to work in unison

Posted by: Maven on November 14, 2009 at 6:13 am

From the Chico Enterprise-Record:

“California has money set aside under Proposition 84, passed in 2006, to fund regional water management plans, including one for the Sacramento River region.

The Department of Water Resources has divided the state into 11 different regions, and each region will guide water management.

Locally, there are disparate groups of players, many that have different goals including surface water districts with a history of water transfers, environmental groups with a history of lawsuits, watershed groups, groundwater users, city water users, etc.

The state would like these groups to work together on the key issues, which include drought, floods, population increase and environmental protection — all under the looming umbrella of unknown climate changes. …”

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November 14, 2009 · Filed Under Northern California

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