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Re:California Imposes First-Ever Water Restrictions to Deal ... by grok2 on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @03:51PM (#9306338)
The farmers are getting no "Federal" water. I don't know what exactly this means -- presumably the state too supplies water to it's farmers via various water-works projects (your 2nd link indicates that farmers relying on state supplied water will get 20% of their usual quota this year) and farmer's also possibly have other sources of water like wells, bore-wells, etc.
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Re:California Imposes First-Ever Water Restrictions to Deal ... by pacificmint on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @04:41PM (#9306711)
There are two different water systems in California. The Central Valley Project [1] is run by the the federal government, the California State Water Project [2] by the state.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Water_Project

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Re:California Imposes First-Ever Water Restrictions to Deal ... by jconley on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @03:57PM (#9306383)
It's much more convoluted than that, unfortunately. There are many layers of rights to water. Farmers will get anywhere from 100% to 0% of water from government sources. For instance, my family's farm is getting 0, so they are forced to rely on well water.
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