Newsom suspends environmental laws to store more Delta water

Lake Oroville
A drone view of low water conditions at the Bidwell Bar Bridge located at Lake Oroville in Butte County, California. On this date, the water storage was 1,790,095 acre-feet (AF), 51 percent of the total capacity. Photo taken January 12, 2022. Andrew Innerarity / California Department of Water Resources.