Colorado River
From: Antoine Abou-Diwan, IV
Press Online
A proposal by the Imperial
Irrigation District to repay the Colorado River system for the 46,546 acre-feet
of Colorado River water that it delivered into the Salton Sea in 2010 has
received a positive response.
Water Bond
From: Katie Orr, Capitol
Public Radio
More than $2 billion of that
money is slated to be spent on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Governor Jerry
Brown is backing a plan that calls for constructing two large underground tunnels
that would send water from the Delta to Central and Southern California.
But Steinberg says he needs more
reassurance that the Brown administration's Bay Delta Conservation Plan will
focus on the environment - not just the tunnels.
Transfers
From: Ken Smith, Chico News
and Review
Though reports recently released
by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) conclude that proposed 2013 water
sales will not affect the hydrological and environmental health of the
Sacramento Valley north of the Delta, North State water advocates disagree.
California Farm
Water Coalition News
From: Julian Luke, The
Land
When drought struck California
between 1987 and 1992, causing the enforcement of water restrictions in urban
areas, the focus turned to the irrigation industry.
Negative news articles started to
appear in the media.
Why were wasteful farmers allowed
to keep using water when urban consumers had to stop watering their lawns?
From: Lucy Barbour, Australian
Broadcasting Corporation
It is a debate that makes some
irrigators furious.
The argument that irrigated
agriculture is a waste of water and damages the environment.
Now farmers in California have
found a way to tell a more positive story about irrigation.
It all started in 1989, when
California was in the middle of a six-year drought.
Irrigators felt that they were
copping bad press over the amount water being used on farms to grow food.
In response, a group of farmers
formed the California Farm Water Coalition.
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