Judge Orders California Water Board To Set Aside Drought Water Curtailment Orders

(June 7, 2019, 2:15 PM EDT) -- SANTA CLARA, Calif. — A California judge on June 6 issued peremptory writs of mandate ordering the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to set aside water curtailment orders issued during the state’s historic drought in May and June 2015 to seven water districts (California Water Curtailment Cases, JCCP No. 4838, No. 2015-1-CV-285182, Calif. Super., Santa Clara Co.)....