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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Instead, the Parker district has forged an estimated $880 million deal with ranchers in Colorado’s most agriculturally productive region to capture and store water from the South Platte River during rare periods when supply exceeds demand.

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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. Francis since 1938, Sister Gardens has become a bustling site of food production and also of reawakened community cultivation.​

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Caff

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Bennett authored the Regional Farmer Equipment & Cooperative Resources Assistance program and a bill protecting small farms from being sued by large corporations over water rights. Thank you, Asm Bennett for your unwavering commitment to a fair and equitable food system.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

The primary message regarding agriculture as a whole is that the risks to agricultural production are rising and will continue to rise as a result of climate change. Drought and torrential rain will frequently reduce productivity in all regions.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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. We know farmers are going to have to produce ag products. And the citizens of Guymon are going to have to have water.”

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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But the valley’s irrigation outlook is dire: Water withdrawn by wells exceeds the amount of snowmelt refilling aquifers, and there are more claims to water rights than there is water in streams. This legal assistance project paired farmers with law students to formalize verbal water-sharing agreements into bylaws.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Daly, who writes about sustainability, says the Walton Family Foundation doesn’t have a say in the publication’s coverage, much like other funders of Diversified Communications’ products as well as advertisers in SeafoodSource. The Waltons have no intention of buying water rights so that the river can have more water.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

As workers slowly gained rights, profits plummeted, and Brazil and India became competitors of cheap sugar production. Meanwhile, local communities are engaged in an ongoing battle for water rights as the residents of Hawaii look toward rebuilding. It’s coated in wax to reduce water loss.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 18, 2023

All three of these states, plus Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota, overlap the Ogallala Aquifer, an underground layer of water that irrigates about 30% of the total crop and animal production in the United States, according to the U.S. Nearly 40 million people rely on water from the Colorado River.

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Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

On June 15, the State Water Resources Control Board told 4,300 users to stop diverting water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta Watershed (3). After receiving the letter, Rebecca decided to stop planting anymore and, as a result, will have no products to sell in several months. “I I won’t have any money coming in then.”

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