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November
11/3/2009
Westlands Water District: Reaping Riches in a Wretched Region - Subsidized Industrial Farming and Its Link to Perpetual Poverty
In the last few decades, well over a billion dollars in taxpayer aid has been provided to a few hundred growers in the Westlands Water District (Westlands), which is part of the San Luis Unit of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation‘s Central Valley Project (CVP) in Central California. The CVP is the largest publicly funded water-management system in the United States,..
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Source:
WaterWired
By:
Lloyd G. Carter
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11/1/2009
California's deficit of common sense
California is rich. Even in the midst of a drought, we have lots of water, and in the midst of a recession, we have lots of money. The problem is one of distribution, not of actual scarcity...
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Los Angeles Times
By:
Rebecca Solnit
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October
10/30/2009
Las Vegas Water Decision a Victory for Family Ranchers
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - While the headlines have been filled with lawyers and public officials reacting to the state court ruling in the Las Vegas water pipeline case, little attention has been paid to the ranchers who filed the suit along with the Great Basin Water Network. Nevada 7th Judicial District Judge Norman Robison ruled the state engineer's decision was arbitrary and an abuse of discretion when he awarded millions of gallons per year to the Southern Nevada Water Authority..
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Source:
Mike Clifford, Public News Service - NV
By:
Not Known
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10/26/2009
For farm-water rights, planners ready to deal
The water to grow cotton, wheat and cantaloupes in Dan Thelander's fields doesn't flow down open ditches or spurt from sprinklers or drip from tiny emitters poking up from the cultivated soil...
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The Arizona Republic
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/10/26/20091026water-users-pinal1026.html#comments
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10/26/2009
Shooting the flume and other irrigation musings
Fall always marks a traditional family ritual. No, it's not burning leaves or carving pumpkins but something that is a direct result of having been raised in the country. Walking the empty canal beds after the irrigation water is cut off. Yes, it's illegal but it never stopped me...
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Grand Junction Free Press
By:
Priscilla Mangnall
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10/25/2009
Water-demanding farms looked at as resources vanish
YUMA - Along its final miles, the Colorado River snakes through a dizzying series of dams, canals, siphons and ditches, diverted to hundreds of users in Arizona and California until barely a trickle remains...
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Source:
azcentral.com
By:
Shaun McKinnon
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10/20/2009
Water-related ag job losses much lower
About nine months ago, Richard Howitt (my dissertation adviser at UC Davis) and his coauthors estimated the impact of reduced water exports from the Sac-SJ Delta on agricultural jobs and revenues in the San Joaquin Valley. In that study,* they estimated the impact to be a $1.6-2.2 billion drop in revenues and 60,000-80,000 job losses...
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Source:
aguanomics.com
By:
Not Known
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10/15/2009
California water war spreads to Congress
WASHINGTON - The House approved a seemingly benign water recycling program Thursday for the San Francisco Bay Area, but only after Republicans fought to broaden drought relief to California's farm belt...
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Source:
cbs5.com
By:
Not Known
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