date:Feb 07, 2014
The decision affects water supplies for 25 million people as well as irrigation for one million acres of farmland. The announcement was made in order to give farmers more time to determine what crops they will plant this year, and in what quantities.
Farmers and other water users often turn to pumping from underground aquifers without deliveries of surface water. The state has no role in regulating such pumping.
A zero allocation is catastrophic and woefully inadequate for Kern County resident