Blog: Is Shorting Fish of Water During Drought Good for Water Users?
From the California WaterBlog by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, in a post by Jay Lund and Peter Moyle:
“In drought years, California usually reduces ‘environmental water flows’ — the amount of river flows needed to maintain aquatic ecosystems — to make more water available for farms and cities. The current drought has been no exception. Depriving fish of adequate river flows, however, might not be in the interests of urban and agricultural users if it leads to long-term decline of species.”