Tag: farmers
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Farmers’ protest is a sign water politics is about to go into hyperdrive
Photo: The confluence of the Murray and Darling rivers. Farmers believe water is not being allocated fairly according to the government’s own rules. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian [h2oIQ editor’s note: we generally focus on North America. However, we are sympathetic to farmers everywhere and note that the issue discussed here could well be on the…
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It’s time for California to let some of its thirsty farmland go
Some half a million acres of the most productive agricultural region on the planet — California’s San Joaquin Valley — will have to fall fallow, a new report says. There just isn’t enough water. Farmers have been using so much water that wells have run dry and the ground has sunk as much as 28…
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California’s ‘dry farmers’ grow crops without irrigation
The environmentally conscious practice relies on rainwater to grow seasonal crops DECEMBER 18: Jim Leap is photographed on his property on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, in San Juan Bautista, Calif. Leap grows grains, fruits, and vegetables on about one acre of his land using dry farming techniques. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) SAN JUAN BAUTISTA…
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Intel pledges decade of water leasing to protect Middle Deschutes
Deschutes River Conservancy’s water leasing program aims to restore, improve flows in the Middle Deschutes River downstream from Bend (Photo: Deschutes River Conservancy) Irrigation diversions can dry up river in summer BEND, Ore. – (Update: Funding amount not disclosed) The Deschutes River Conservancy announced Wednesday that its water leasing program has just secured funding from…
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Long term ag change impacts stream water quality
Photo: Graduate students Heather Luken and Tanner Williamson collect water samples from an automated sampler on Four Mile Creek. The autosampler collects a water sample from the stream every seven hours, and stores 24 samples in the carousel of bottles shown here. Credit: Carrie Ann Sharitt In the early 1990s, Acton Lake in southwestern Ohio…
