Civil Eats
OCTOBER 28, 2024
There are people nibbling around the edges of the water rights discussion.” The problem is it takes a lot of water, and farmers grow it because they have available water, because of the institutions or the laws or the economics that give that water to them. They also don’t lead to efficient use of water.
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
The only agriculture left in Arizona after about 20 years will be Indian agriculture,” he says, “because they do have the water rights, they do have the land.” For him, agricultural resilience in the West means less manipulation of the environment.
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.
ATTRA
OCTOBER 24, 2023
The remaining 50% should be space for air and water. Right: Figure 5: Composition of unhealthy soil where two-thirds or more of the soil is comprised of solid particles. This leaves very little space to allow water or air to seep in. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.
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.”
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.
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