(August 10, 2016, 11:55 AM EDT) -- Three environmental groups on Aug. 9 asked the California State Water Resources Control Board to impose emergency regulations on water diversions and exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and watershed in order to save the Delta smelt, an endangered fish species.

(Letter available. Document #95-160811-017X.)

In a letter, the Defenders of Wildlife, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Bay Institute asked the board to adopt emergency regulations under California Government Code Section 11346.1 “in light of an urgent need for action to avoid irreparable...