Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer has been declining since the 1950s, leaving some farmers in Idaho are in limbo as negotiations continue to avoid a water curtailment.
This is what you get when Californians moving here and your property taxes go sky high they're kicking people out their minimum wage here's been 7.25 an hour for the past 28 years so you're paying triple the rent trying to make a your house payment in your car payment and now it's the water
Why don't you fact check the rules for homeowners who are irrigating over a 1/2 acre from there domestic wells, as well. Especially those who bought dry acreage building lots. How many subdivisions use well water because they are outside city services. If they have water rights they don't last the whole season and are undependable so most depend on their well and sprinkler systems. No farms no food!!! Keep irrigating that oversized lawn and pasture you don't have rights for. You are using ground water that could have maintained the aquifer for these farmers who put food on your tables.
Right. It actually uses more water to water lawns than the same amount of hay. A house uses ground water year round depending on how long of showers kids like to take, where irrigation ends at the end of the season. People don't realize how much water their household consumes
The powers to be in Idaho need to do their job. Cutting of growers at mid season is absolutely unacceptable! There's always a solution that will make everybody happy. Find it Idaho! P.S. Your starting to sound like California! Is that what you want? Get it together!
There is never a solution that will make everybody happy. A good compromise is something everybody can live with, but it doesn't necessarily make them happy.
Funny how the same day the water is going to be shut off is the exact same day that a new Cobalt mine opens up near by which needs TONS of water to mine cobalt for ‘green energy’ lithium batteries
All the farmers nationwide better band together and petition or sue to have the phony excuse of climate change entirely thrown out of the entire equation.
This area is too important to fail. Most of the potatoes in the entire country come out of this area. Its a HUGE stake in grocery store volume across the country. But its also likely that the people who stole the water if they can't get their way, will just start stealing it anyway underground also through illegal pumping. And they'd do that because they've shown they already don't care about the law, and put themselves above others; this means its a matter of time before they'll try it again but this time without being noticed. Others are saying that the people who stole the water did so, to try to muscle in so they can make cobalt batteries that take a lot of water to cool in their manufacturing process. And this means it won't be that hard to figure out who this culprit is.
UPDATE June 19, 2024: Water Curtailment Order lifted (Idaho Press) 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.”
A philosophical disagreement the man said. Your economy is made of potatoes sir. Stop being ignorant stop allowing yourself to be bullied. Be a man and make a stand.
water is a limited resource in the arid west, these Idaho guys are sounding like the fight over who uses water and for what and how much is brand new. Cripes here in eastern Washington that battle has raged for decades. Farming is a necessary and vital activity. Big business farming, that is to say farming to export crops is not. Oh it is to the farmers that have decided that this is how they want to make a buck and get through life. Farming has relied on the high social value of farming to pave the way and deliver public resources to hand. The tendency is to assume they will prevail against regulatory efforts because after all they are farmers. I do not discount that the elements of woke government might be at work here too, but even so the farming activity cannot assume business as usual with regard to water resources. There are cases here in south central washington where expansion of irrigated land way over exceeded water resources, in some cases the land was returned to fallow.
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Brad Little needs to be voted out along with his water resources people.
This is what you get when Californians moving here and your property taxes go sky high they're kicking people out their minimum wage here's been 7.25 an hour for the past 28 years so you're paying triple the rent trying to make a your house payment in your car payment and now it's the water
Why don't you fact check the rules for homeowners who are irrigating over a 1/2 acre from there domestic wells, as well. Especially those who bought dry acreage building lots. How many subdivisions use well water because they are outside city services. If they have water rights they don't last the whole season and are undependable so most depend on their well and sprinkler systems. No farms no food!!! Keep irrigating that oversized lawn and pasture you don't have rights for. You are using ground water that could have maintained the aquifer for these farmers who put food on your tables.
Right. It actually uses more water to water lawns than the same amount of hay. A house uses ground water year round depending on how long of showers kids like to take, where irrigation ends at the end of the season. People don't realize how much water their household consumes
The powers to be in Idaho need to do their job. Cutting of growers at mid season is absolutely unacceptable! There's always a solution that will make everybody happy. Find it Idaho! P.S. Your starting to sound like California! Is that what you want? Get it together!
There is never a solution that will make everybody happy. A good compromise is something everybody can live with, but it doesn't necessarily make them happy.
It's IdaFornia now developers and investors want that water my opinion
What are the political forces at play here ?
sounds like a MAGA stunt to me .
See above, I've commented on this which should answer your question.
control food and water, and you control the people
Food or electric cars? That is the real fight here. Keep cobalt mining away from our food sources.
He said it! Climate change. Lol.
As soon as I heard climate change I started laughing….
Funny how the same day the water is going to be shut off is the exact same day that a new Cobalt mine opens up near by which needs TONS of water to mine cobalt for ‘green energy’ lithium batteries
Yes. That's it. I also commented about that above. Not a coincidence.
All the farmers nationwide better band together and petition or sue to have the phony excuse of climate change entirely thrown out of the entire equation.
Farmers and food services!
KTVB, This video is a winner!
Thank you get the word out!
Has China owned farm land in America been cut off their water?
Of course not...white people are the target
This area is too important to fail. Most of the potatoes in the entire country come out of this area. Its a HUGE stake in grocery store volume across the country. But its also likely that the people who stole the water if they can't get their way, will just start stealing it anyway underground also through illegal pumping. And they'd do that because they've shown they already don't care about the law, and put themselves above others; this means its a matter of time before they'll try it again but this time without being noticed.
Others are saying that the people who stole the water did so, to try to muscle in so they can make cobalt batteries that take a lot of water to cool in their manufacturing process. And this means it won't be that hard to figure out who this culprit is.
Climate change my a$$
Is the cobalt mining still being done? 24/7 water use? Let's see food, lively hoods , or cobalt?
Meanwhile, the planet is on fire.
UPDATE June 19, 2024: Water Curtailment Order lifted (Idaho Press)
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.”
Those water systems waste so much water. Isn't there a better form of irrigation
Yes and no. The people with the top water rights are F ing farmers over. Cobalt mining companies are coming for the lands.
Water must be given to our farmers- you can bet there is a secret event being planed!
Those who control the food control the people
"Freest state in the country" they said 😂
LISTEN UP......The REAL REASON for the water problem is: COBALT MINE IN IDAHO.....NEED WATER
And the out of state developers and investors it's IdaFornia now
A philosophical disagreement the man said. Your economy is made of potatoes sir. Stop being ignorant stop allowing yourself to be bullied. Be a man and make a stand.
water is a limited resource in the arid west, these Idaho guys are sounding like the fight over who uses water and for what and how much is brand new. Cripes here in eastern Washington that battle has raged for decades. Farming is a necessary and vital activity. Big business farming, that is to say farming to export crops is not. Oh it is to the farmers that have decided that this is how they want to make a buck and get through life. Farming has relied on the high social value of farming to pave the way and deliver public resources to hand. The tendency is to assume they will prevail against regulatory efforts because after all they are farmers. I do not discount that the elements of woke government might be at work here too, but even so the farming activity cannot assume business as usual with regard to water resources. There are cases here in south central washington where expansion of irrigated land way over exceeded water resources, in some cases the land was returned to fallow.
Maybe the water is needed for Colbalt mining? Money for Ukraine diverted to Idaho for the colbalt!
Keep voting Republican
eastern getting usa water n alfaalfa..n send back that to thier wn country
What? Could you please restate that using proper grammar?
MAGA farmers votes for a MAGA governor then whine about it. *Chef's Kiss*
Damn