Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

On a dry, hot day in June, water manager Chris Ivers plunged his hand into San Luis Creek and extracted a tangled mat of weeds that had blocked icy snowmelt from reaching nearby farms. The free-flowing water is a welcome sight in southern Colorado, an agricultural region in the throes of a groundwater crisis.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, the publication also presents planned solutions to reduce emissions and transform toward increasingly robust farming systems. Despite the challenges ahead, substantial reason for optimism lies both in suggested routes to emissions reductions and adaptation of farming systems. from Chapter 22 of NCA5.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 18, 2023

As has been documented in several previous editions of Keep it Rural, this winter, the West was doused with enough rain and snow to finally get California out of the drought that has haunted it for years. If it were completely drained, it would take approximately 6,000 years for the aquifer to recharge with water.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 1, 2023

To protect these waterways, Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, giving the Environmental Protection Agency oversight in protecting the country’s bodies of water, including wetlands, underground aquifers, and diverted surface water. ag sector and can impact land values for rural landowners.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Known as the Platte Valley Water Partnership , their unique arrangement would allow city dwellers and farmers and ranchers—who hold the most senior water rights in the West—to share the cost of several reservoirs and a pipeline. But that system is imperiled if ranchers and cities continue to forge buy-and-dry deals, Frank said.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Their stories on climate crisis solutions, including a surge in drought-resistant agave farming , flooding fields after heavy rains for groundwater restoration , and planting hedgerows for carbon sequestration and other environmental benefits, were named best environment reporting. Alice Driver’s “ Tyson Says Its Nurses Help Workers.

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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.” This has led land-strapped farmers to either drop out of farming or become tenant farmers, operating farms on rented land.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Now, the disappearing water is threatening more than just agriculture. Rural communities are facing dire futures where water is no longer a certainty. Today, the aquifer supports 20% of the nation’s wheat, corn, cotton and cattle production and represents 30% of all water used for irrigation in the United States.

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