California water regulators flexed their muscles on Thursday by ordering a group of farmers to stop pumping from a branch of the San Joaquin River amid an escalating battle over how much power the state has to protect waterways that are drying up in the drought. The State Water Resources Control Board issued the cease and desist order against an irrigation district in California's agriculture-rich Central Valley that it said had failed to obey a previous warning to stop pumping. Hefty fines could follow.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/state-irrigation-district-violated-2015-drought-order-32499606
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