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The state water board released new water-cutback goals Thursday afternoon, April 7, easing conservation numbers for many Inland suppliers.

The announcement comes in the wake of this week’s Eastern Municipal Water District vote to ease drought restrictions, which may have been among the region’s first to make such changes. Now the State Water Resources Control Board’s new goals show reduced drought restrictions for suppliers across the Inland area.

In May, California’s water authority is set to soften water conservation requirements for certain areas of the state, including the North Coast.

While this announcement was met with a favorable response by local water officials, the State Water Resources Control Board’s Chairwoman Felicia Marcus said earlier this week that nobody will be off the hook entirely.

Endangered salmon blocked for nearly a century from hundreds of miles of the Klamath River in Oregon and California are expected to return en masse under unusual agreements signed Wednesday to tear down four hydroelectric dams.

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, who signed agreements with the governors of both states, said the plan would bring about one of the largest river restoration projects in the history of the U.S.

California, Oregon and a private utility Wednesday signed an agreement that could finally take down four hydroelectric dams that block salmon migrations on the Klamath River.

The pact, signed by the governors of both states and federal officials at the mouth of the Klamath in Northern California, spells out a road map for pursuing the dams’ demolition without congressional approval.

Stanford researchers who studied trends in the atmospheric circulation patterns that affect California’s rainfall have found that conditions linked to the hot, dry weather during our latest drought have become more frequent in recent years, according to research published Friday.

That means that while this year’s El Niño-driven storms may have brought temporary relief to the Golden State’s parched soil and depleted reservoirs, Californians can expect more frequent droughts in the decades to come, said the study published by Science Advances.