The move will likely cut off irrigation water to hundreds of cattle ranchers and farmers in the upper basin this summer.
The move will likely cut off irrigation water to hundreds of cattle ranchers and farmers in the upper basin this summer.
The historic calls come after Oregon set water rights priorities earlier this year in the basin, home to one of the nation’s most persistent water wars. Drought has cut water flows in upper basin rivers to 40 percent of normal.
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