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.
Daily Yonder
AUGUST 2, 2023
But Fales isn’t necessarily concerned about California coming for his water rights. California will start it, but when they demand more water from Colorado, Denver is not gonna be helping us out,” he said. Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and Fort Collins are going to dictate the [state’s water] policy.
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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.
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
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.
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
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But the valley’s irrigation outlook is dire: Water withdrawn by wells exceeds the amount of snowmelt refilling aquifers, and there are more claims to water rights than there is water in streams.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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