The year’s first allocation from California’s massive water storage and delivery system has been set at just 10 percent of requested supplies, officials with the state Department of Water Resources announced Monday. DWR operates the State Water Project, which delivers water to 29 public water agencies that serve an estimated 27 million people and 750,000 acres of farmland throughout the state. DWR is required to set its initial annual water allocation by Dec. 1 every year and the size of the allocation is typically fairly small at first. As the rainy season develops, however, if the state sees an increase in rain and snowfall totals, water allocations could potentially increase every month.

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