Water supply
Letter
From Sacramento Bee - Saturday, May 12, 2012
Coalition response...Lloyd Carter continues the use of those mythical words---senior and
junior---that do not exist in the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation contracts with
water users of the Central Valley Project. Each water contractor has an individual
contract with the federal agency that is not dependent on the water supply of
any other contractor. The US holds the water rights granted by the state of
California for the construction and operation of the CVP. It is these very old
rights that provide the basis for all of the contracts for the delivery of
project water. The rights are uniform among all contractors regardless of
location or date of initial delivery.
Read the Reclamation press
release announcing the current 40% delivery at http://www.usbr.gov/newsroom/newsrelease/detail.cfm?RecordID=39804.
Those mythical words are not a part of the press release because they do not
exist in the contracts, only in the minds of Carter and others who oppose the
production of a reliable and healthy supply of food from the farmers of
Westlands Water District.
Delta
Viewpoint
By Deirdre Des Jardins/Jane
Wagner-Tyack
From Sacramento Bee - Saturday, May 12, 2012
Coalition response...If the land in Westlands Water District is so poor as these authors
claim, then why are the crop yields so high? A combination of
factors---weather, climate, water, management practices and soil---have
resulted in crop yields that lead the nation year after year. The drop in
cotton acreage during the past decade has been the result of dropping prices in
the market, not soil conditions as the authors suggest. A recent rebound in
market prices has seen cotton acreage creep upward.
Family farmers and partnerships
represent the vast majority of farms in the district. People keep citing
"absentee farmers" as they try to hide the fact of how many family
farmers are on the land. Families and partnerships make the decisions on 91% of
the 81,000 farms in California. Westlands is no different.
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