Acre Ruralism Water Rights 
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 28, 2024
When Peter Gleick moved to California in the 1970s, the state had more than a million acres of cotton in production and little control over the use of its rapidly depleting groundwater. For Gleick, an author and cofounder of the water-focused Pacific Institute , these are signs that change can happen. It’s easy to grow.
Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Here, those resources are managed through a prioritization of water rights, where the oldest claims are first in line to receive an allocation of the water that flows through the basin. The priority system has helped us manage a limited water resource in the West for over a century,” Ferry said.
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Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres. Through a pilot program, MWD pays the farmers leasing the land and the tribe up to $473 per acre.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The Big Muddy Creek flows through dams and diversions, pictured on the right, that are managed by the Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge to fill the lake as needed. Credit: Keely Larson, RTBC S heridan County is extremely rural, home to about 3,500 people across its 1,706 square miles. Agriculture is a big economic driver.
Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
But the valley’s irrigation outlook is dire: Water withdrawn by wells exceeds the amount of snowmelt refilling aquifers, and there are more claims to water rights than there is water in streams. But applying the same approach to water is tricky. The expanse is among the most densely irrigated regions on Earth.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
AUGUST 11, 2023
Caraveo responded to questions about some of the barriers producers face in accessing federal programs and what is being done to address water rights, particularly for young farmers and farmers of color. Caraveo has a strong interest in community health, child nutrition, addressing food instability, and looking at “food as medicine.”
Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Its current offerings include 83 acres of almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley, advertised as “an opportunity to invest in a water-secure almond orchard in the world’s most productive almond-producing region.” That’s the promise that AcreTrader , a company with the mission of simplifying investing in valuable U.S.
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