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From California Water Blog - Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Coalition response --- At a water conference in Clovis on Tuesday, March 15 water experts from Australia discussed water policy and supply from their perspective. Both said, without a doubt, that making farmers shift from low value crops as a water conservation strategy is a mistake. Speaking at the "Intelligent Use of Water" Summit, sponsored by Rain Bird, Andrew Gregson, CEO of the New South Wales Irrigators' Council and Rebecca Nelson, Lead researcher of the Comparative Groundwater Law and Policy Program at Stanford University both claimed water markets without crop restrictions do a much better job of managing water supplies without undue burdens on farmers.
The blog's authors conclude by saying water markets are a viable tool and they concede that banning specific crops, "are likely to impose higher costs on farmers and society, while failing to save real water." We agree.
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