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State Water Board Approves Delta Plan; Federal Funding Threatened

California's State Water Resources Control Board approved an update to the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan late Thursday night, centering Gov. Gavin Newsom's $2.9 billion Healthy Rivers and Landscapes Program of voluntary agreements between water agencies and habitat restoration commitments. The plan gives water agencies a choice between voluntary compliance or mandatory regulatory rules governing minimum flows through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The Trump administration has threatened to withdraw support and hundreds of millions in federal funding, while environmental groups, tribes, and fishing organizations argue the plan fails to protect the Delta's declining ecosystem. Only one board member voted against the update.

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