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.

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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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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Kansas Land Sales: Irrigated land with water rights continues to be in demand.

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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.

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

What is novel about SGMA is that it does not challenge actual water rights but puts restrictions on how much water rights-holders can pump depending on the level of overdraft. The worst part is that every landowner has had to contract lawyers to defend each of their own water rights, otherwise risk losing them completely.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Fort Peck Tribes and the USFWS were concerned about their respective water levels and how they’d be impacted by irrigation. Reiten says the USFWS was objecting to just about every water rights case that went to the state at the time, and all that litigation ended up in water court.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

The catastrophic fire that just ravaged more than 2,000 acres and at least 2,000 homes on Maui, and claimed 114 lives and counting is inextricably linked to the island’s agricultural history. As workers slowly gained rights, profits plummeted, and Brazil and India became competitors of cheap sugar production.

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