With California’s rainy season shaping up as an unusually wet one, thanks to recent storms, the California Department of Water Resources is easing up on the spigot.
The department has increased its early projected allocation to cities and farms from 25 percent to 50 percent of the requested water for 2011, pleasing water officials who have seen much lower estimates at this time in previous years.
The early estimates are purposely conservative, and are typically raised as the water outlook becomes clearer, the department said last week.
This year, the department originally estimated that it could deliver 5 percent of requested water, and on Friday increased that amount to 50 percent.
While the storms don’t mean the state’s three-year drought is over, they greatly ease concerns about the supply, water officials said.
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