The pumping restriction taking shape along the Friant-Kern Canal isn't theoretical anymore — one Tule subbasin board member already has 4,500 acres out of production. This week: DWR tells the California Water Commission that every supply project together still won't close the valley's gap; a $730,000 small-farm fallowing fund near Paso Robles has fewer than 10 applicants; Metropolitan rereads the Palo Verde fallowing agreement and January planting gets complicated; Porterville ID GSA adopts its $50.67-per-acre extraction fee. Plus: the five-year GSP reviews where DWR's corrective actions actually bite, Friday's Colorado River Record of Decision, interconnected surface water as the state's recurring red pen, and districts quietly moving idle cash into higher yields.

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The strongest El Niño since tracking began may be forming — and Central Valley districts are telling growers to get fields ready before the first storm. Plus: Greater Kaweah's concept to stop allocating "paper water," State Water Board extraction invoices land with a 30-day clock (and a petition playbook if you were billed for banked water), a $200 million cost break moves the B.F. Sisk Dam raise forward, and the Tule moratorium timeline may be speeding up.

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The state's opening offer for one stretch of the Tule Subbasin was zero pumping. Plus: a Tehama County fee ruling starts landing on Sacramento Valley boards, a $25 million federal banking award with a September deadline, golden mussels at O'Neill, and what the Colorado River's final EIS actually says. Full recaps at WaterOne.ai.