REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS

August 2008

To read this entire item of approximately 1500 words online now in PDF format: Click here to read this item if you are an existing subscriber to this publication. Click here to purchase the full text of this item to read now (price: $25). To subscribe to this publication and immediately access all its archives including this item, select the relevant publication under 'Catalogue' in the left-hand column PLEASE NOTE: to read PDFs on www.argento.com you must be using Version 5 of Acrobat Reader or Adobe Reader. If you have an earlier version you can download the latest free of charge by clicking here

Governor Schwarzenegger Proclaims Drought in California and State of Emergency In Nine Counties Triggering Agency Mandates

On June 4, 2008, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order declaring a drought in California, and followed up a week later with a proclamation of a state of emergency in the Central Valley. Following two straight years of below-average rainfall, very low snowmelt runoff, and court-ordered water withdrawal restrictions, the governor’s declarations direct the Department of Water Resources to act swiftly in coordinating efforts to provide water to those hardest hit in the state—largely the Central Valley agricultural industry.