Once again the Klamath River Basin is in a water crisis. With not enough water to fulfill all needs and demands, irrigators, federal tribes and fishermen are all clamoring for more water and for emergency disaster assistance from the federal government. In the middle are the federal and state agencies charged with meeting competing needs of threatened and endangered fish, water rights law and irrigator demands.
Meanwhile the organization People s Rights has called for irrigators to âSTAND UP AND PROTECT YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY, YOUR WATER!â According to a report from The Counter, Peopleâs Rights is the far-right militia group founded by Ammon Bundy, known for leading a takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in 2016.
Klamath Basin Farmers Look to Groundwater, Fallowing Land
Wednesday May 19th, 2021
News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich.
The Bureau of Reclamation announced it would be shutting down the Klamath Irrigation Project’s A canal which typically delivers water to farmers along the California/Oregon border. Family Farm Alliance Executive Director Dan Keppen says many farmers will pump groundwater if they can, or fallow land.
Keppen… “With no surface water out there, people are looking to use groundwater and the state of Oregon has, has issued emergency drought permits to allow people to pump groundwater. On the California side, the Tulelake Irrigation District has some wells and they re working out a program to sort of parse the water out down there. But it s not sustainable. I mean, you can only go to it in times of need and then allow it to replenish. And this ll be the second year in a row where we re hitting the groundwater pretty hard. And
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