Sentences with phrase «federal irrigation water»

If they don't get federal irrigation water by this summer, their trees will start dying.

April 22, 2014 • For the first time in six years, many California farmers have been told they'll get little or no federal irrigation water.

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However, cotton, like almonds, is highly reliant on irrigated water, making the sector vulnerable to drought and rising water prices as well as political stoushes, as is occurring currently in the Federal parliament over the next stage of the Murray Darling Basin irrigation plan.

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In hopes of getting around these barriers, members from many of these groups — including federal and state fisheries and wildlife agencies, water supply managers, irrigation districts, and environmental groups — came together in 2006 and began hammering out the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP).

Parties to the Basin Agreement include American Rivers and 8 other conservation organizations; four tribes (Karuk, Yurok, Klamath and Hoopa); Klamath County (OR), Siskiyou and Humboldt Counties (CA), the Klamath Water Users Association, farmers outside of the federal irrigation project, the Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman's Associations, the states of Oregon and California, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce.

Taking the CA Central Valley as an example, the single largest use of irrigation water is cotton, the production of which would scale back greatly if the federal subsidies for growing cotton were eliminated.

Curtailment of state and federal water project deliveries for agricultural irrigation have already resulted multi-billion dollar losses as thousands of acres of farmland are fallowed.

Data on agricultural production and water use are not collected at all, or are collected by individual irrigation districts, counties, and a variety of state and federal agencies using a range of tools from voluntary reporting at the field level to remote sensing from satellites.