Farming
From: Peyton Fleming and
Brooke Barton, National Geographic Water Currents
California and tomatoes are
synonymous. Drive along Interstate 80 near Sacramento these days and you'll see
an endless parade of trucks, each filled to the brim with 26 tons of glistening
succulent red tomatoes. It's so many trucks, one after another, that you begin
to understand how California grows 30 percent of the world's processed
tomatoes.
It's a mind-boggling operation,
especially when you ponder the vast amount of water that's needed for all this.
The processing plant itself uses more than three million gallons a day to move,
clean, and cook tomatoes. Out in the fields, growing just one pound of raw
tomatoes requires about nine gallons of water. Multiply that times the 20,000
acres that are under production for Campbell and you get the idea.
From: Catherine Wong, Eureka
Times-Standard
With temperatures dropping and
the fog rolling in, it may be hard to believe Humboldt County is still in a
drought.
"The effects of a drought,
the lag is a full year," said Blake Alexandre, a Humboldt County dairy farmer.
"We will be suffering all winter and all spring because of this
summer."
Water Supply
From: Anjanette Shadley
Martin, Farm Water News
Making the efficient use of our
water supply in any "type" of water year is always a priority but
even more so when you see these headlines:
·
"Groundwater worries in San Joaquin Valley Intensify, along with
drought" (Mark Grossi 9/24)
·
"UC Professors look at declining California Groundwater and how to manage
it into the
future" (LA Times 9/23)
Groundwater
From: Marijke Rowland, Modesto
Bee
City leaders want a stop to new
agricultural wells across the county.
City Council members voted
unanimously Wednesday night to draft a letter to the Stanislaus County Board of
Supervisors requesting members to consider a moratorium on drilling for new
agricultural production wells.
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Amy Quinton, Capital
Public Radio
The California Department of
Water Resources will delay the release of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan yet
again. As Amy Quinton reports from Sacramento, the costly delay is a result of
the federal government shutdown.
Salton Sea
From: Associated Press, SF
Chronicle
Leaders in Imperial County have
hammered out a deal to restore the Salton Sea and raise $3 billion to revive
the shoreline economy driven by new alternative-energy development.
The accord announced Tuesday ends
more than a decade of infighting between the county and the Imperial Irrigation
District over the ongoing sale of water to the San Diego region, the U-T San
Diego newspaper reported.
Meetings
From: Matt Williams, ACWA
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