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Southern California is being paid up to $65 million to leave 65 billion gallons of water in Lake Mead as the reservoir crisis deepens

Historically low water levels are plaguing Lake Mead, affecting millions in various states and Mexico. To combat this, federal funds will support efforts to keep water in the reservoir this year, coupled with initiatives aimed at conserving agricultural water annually. While these measures are crucial for now, achieving lasting change…

The Times of India

‘Minorities welfare confined to Shaadi Mubarak and iftar parties, most schemes performed poorly

Telangana Minorities Welfare Dept.’s ‘populist schemes’, such as Shaadi Mubarak and iftar parties, are most fund-utilised. Poor performance of schemes that could help change lives of minorities exposed. RTI replies, fieldwork and case studies reveal lack of transparency, unimplemented schemes, under-utilised funds, and budget discrimination.

The Hindu

Syed Omer Jaleel is Secretary, Telangana Minorities Welfare

Syed Omer Jaleel reappointed as Secretary of Minorities Welfare Department for two years; also serves as Commissioner of Minorities Welfare. Previously served as Special Secretary of MWD in undivided Andhra Pradesh and Secretary/Commissioner of Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education.

The Hindu

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Budgetary allocations for minorities see a hike

According to data obtained by means of the Right to Information Act, at the time of the State’s formation, the MWD was allocated ₹1,030 crore.

The Hindu

Drought-ravaged Colorado River gets relief from snow. But long-term water crisis remains

LOS ANGELES — Four months ago, the outlook for the Colorado River was so dire that federal projections showed imminent risks of reservoirs dropping to dangerously low levels.

Los Angeles Times

'Nature gave us a lifeline:' Southern California refills largest reservoir after wet winter

LOS ANGELES — Following a series of winter storms that eased drought conditions across the state, Southern Californians celebrated a sight nobody has seen for several punishing years: water rushing into Diamond Valley Lake.

Los Angeles Times

Big money: Calif.'s drought is not over

Those with power, money and a direct stake are staking out positions like animals around a watering hole

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Capital & Main

Water restrictions lifted for 7 million in Southern California, but region still urged to conserve

LOS ANGELES — Mandatory water restrictions are being lifted for nearly 7 million people across Southern California following winter storms that have boosted reservoirs and eased a severe shortage that emerged during the state’s driest three-year period on record.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: An unfair plan to cut California’s use of Colorado River water

The immediate question before the seven states that use rapidly vanishing Colorado River water is not how to renegotiate the century-old agreement and accompanying laws that divvy up the supply.

Los Angeles Times

As Colorado River shrinks, water evaporation becomes critical to California’s future supplies

LOS ANGELES — Much of the Colorado River’s water is diverted from reservoirs and transported in canals to the farmlands and cities of the desert Southwest. But some of the water also ends up going elsewhere — vanishing into thin air.

Los Angeles Times

California offers proposal on Colorado River crisis, disagreeing with six states

California has given the federal government its own counterproposal for apportioning reductions of Colorado River water, saying a plan offered by six other states would disproportionately burden farms and cities in Southern California.

Los Angeles Times

Drought emergency declared for all of Southern California

LOS ANGELES — As California faces the prospect of a fourth consecutive dry year, officials with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California have declared a regional drought emergency and called on water agencies to immediately reduce their use of all imported supplies.

Los Angeles Times

Nearly 20% of California water agencies could see shortages if drought persists, state report shows

LOS ANGELES — Most of California’s urban water agencies believe they have enough supplies to last through another seven months of drought, but nearly 20% of them — including many in Southern California — say they could be facing significant shortages, according to a new state report.

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Los Angeles Times

More water restrictions likely as California pledges to cut use of Colorado River supply

LOS ANGELES — With the Colorado River in crisis and reservoir levels continuing to decline, some California water agencies are planning to significantly reduce the amount they take from the river starting next year.

Los Angeles Times

More water restrictions likely as California pledges to cut use of Colorado River supply

LOS ANGELES — With the Colorado River in crisis and reservoir levels continuing to decline, California water agencies that depend on the river are planning to significantly reduce their use of water from the river starting next year.

Los Angeles Times

LA conserving water at record levels, but it's not enough as drought worsens

During a summer of soaring heat, shrinking supplies and mandatory drought restrictions, Los Angeles residents conserved water at an impressive pace in August, with that month's usage dropping below a record low set during the previous drought.

Los Angeles Times

As water supply shrinks, California struggles to maintain aging aqueducts

SAN JACINTO, Calif. — As drought, global warming and chronic overuse push the Colorado River to perilous new lows, water officials are hoping to prevent an earthquake from severing a critical Depression-era aqueduct that now connects millions of Southern Californians to the shrinking river.

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Los Angeles Times

As talks on Colorado River water falter, US government imposes new restrictions

LOS ANGELES — After Colorado River Basin states failed to meet a deadline for emergency drought reductions Tuesday, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced new emergency water cuts for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico as the nation’s two largest reservoirs decline to perilously low levels.

Los Angeles Times

Tensions grow over lack of a water deal for the shrinking Colorado River

LOS ANGELES — Two months ago, federal officials took the unprecedented step of telling the seven states that depend on Colorado River water to prepare for emergency cuts next year to prevent reservoirs from dropping to dangerously low levels.

Los Angeles Times

LA-area city of Burbank to ban outdoor watering in September; other cities may follow

LOS ANGELES — Outdoor watering will be banned next month in Burbank.

Los Angeles Times

Early signs that SoCal is using less water, but big tests are still ahead

LOS ANGELES — Less than a month after sweeping water restrictions took effect across Southern California, early indications suggest residents are finally heeding calls to conserve as officials report a noticeable drop in demand throughout the region.

Los Angeles Times

Parts of Southern California used 26% more water in April despite conservation pleas

LOS ANGELES — California water conservation efforts continued to lag in April despite the deepening drought, according to new state figures released Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times

Officials fear water restrictions will worsen fire risk in Southern California

LOS ANGELES — After losing dozens of oak trees, a guest house and a garage filled with mementos of her late husband in the 2018 Woolsey fire, Nicole Radoumis dreads the arrival of extreme fire weather amid a punishing California drought.

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California cracks down on water use as it sees its most severe drought ever

Water departments had the option to choose between an outdoor watering limit of one day per week or by volume of water used.

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