Hey there local 8 news. I'm curious if the Cartel drug farmers are effected since they are illegally growing, in the state & are illegally present in the state & illegally present in the country. You might want to draw attention to getting them removed to "conserve" water.
UPDATE: Water Curtailment Order Lifted Groundwater irrigators and surface water irrigators have completed a deal that saves 330,000 acres of Idaho farmland from being dried up and averts economic catastrophe in the state. A mitigation agreement for 2024, brokered by Governor Brad Little and Lt. Governor Scott Bedke, has now been signed by all parties and has been submitted to the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR for approval. When the deal is approved, IDWR will lift the curtailment for all nine ground water districts whose patrons irrigate with groundwater from the ESPA. “This is a huge relief to our members, who have had their livelihoods threatened over the past month,” said TJ Budge, attorney for Idaho Ground Water Appropriators. “We want to thank Governor Little, Lt. Governor Bedke, Senator Van Burtenshaw and, especially, all of our groundwater district members for their sincere and significant efforts to get a deal done before it was too late.” Reference: Idaho Press, June 19, 2024
Well that will get us a year but what happens next year? These farmers built their farms around generations of unsustainable practices. Pump the water from the ground till the river runs dry.
@@joshuaerickson2458 It's hard to blame the farmers when the root cause of the depletion of the groundwater aquifers is higher than average temperatures and lower than average rainfalls. (Some would blame global warming, others would simply chalk it up to the lack of predictability of the weather. In any case, it is what it is: dryer, hotter conditions.) As to long term relief for farmers, I'm neither optimistic nor pessimistic. I believe a solution will be worked out. I don't believe everyone will be happy with whatever agreement is hammered out.
Hey there local 8 news. I'm curious if the Cartel drug farmers are effected since they are illegally growing, in the state & are illegally present in the state & illegally present in the country. You might want to draw attention to getting them removed to "conserve" water.
The farmer says the water I'd controlled by the state, true, but the state MUST be answerable to the people, who grant the state the power.
UPDATE: Water Curtailment Order Lifted
Groundwater irrigators and surface water irrigators have completed a deal that saves 330,000 acres of Idaho farmland from being dried up and averts economic catastrophe in the state.
A mitigation agreement for 2024, brokered by Governor Brad Little and Lt. Governor Scott Bedke, has now been signed by all parties and has been submitted to the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR for approval. When the deal is approved, IDWR will lift the curtailment for all nine ground water districts whose patrons irrigate with groundwater from the ESPA.
“This is a huge relief to our members, who have had their livelihoods threatened over the past month,” said TJ Budge, attorney for Idaho Ground Water Appropriators. “We want to thank Governor Little, Lt. Governor Bedke, Senator Van Burtenshaw and, especially, all of our groundwater district members for their sincere and significant efforts to get a deal done before it was too late.”
Reference: Idaho Press, June 19, 2024
Well that will get us a year but what happens next year? These farmers built their farms around generations of unsustainable practices. Pump the water from the ground till the river runs dry.
@@joshuaerickson2458 It's hard to blame the farmers when the root cause of the depletion of the groundwater aquifers is higher than average temperatures and lower than average rainfalls. (Some would blame global warming, others would simply chalk it up to the lack of predictability of the weather. In any case, it is what it is: dryer, hotter conditions.)
As to long term relief for farmers, I'm neither optimistic nor pessimistic. I believe a solution will be worked out. I don't believe everyone will be happy with whatever agreement is hammered out.