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California Farmers Agree to Rare Cuts

February 26, 2015

As California’s drought continues to grip the state, regulators and a group of farmers have agreed to rare voluntary water cutbacks.

The farmers are all located in the fertile San Joaquin River Delta and have agreed to a plan that will require them to either cut their water use by 25%, or leave 25% of their land fallow. The plan was proposed by the farmers and accepted Friday by the State Water Resources Control Board.

Tim Moran, a spokesman for the board, told BuzzFeed News the plan affects those who have land that abuts rivers. Those landowners have the right to pull water directly out of those rivers — a concept known as “riparian rights.” Moran said there are as many...