EL CENTRO — The Imperial County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to rescind the county’s appointee to the Imperial Valley Healthcare District and appoint a new member.
Tens of millions of people and millions of acres of farmland rely on the Colorado River’s water. But as its supply shrinks, these farmers get more water from the river than entire states.
Recently, a Coachella Valley-based newspaper reported about water consumption among Imperial Valley farmers. The investigative story in which a nonprofit dedicated to exposing cases of abuse of power and betrayals
Twenty families in the Imperial Valley received a whopping 386.5 billion gallons of the river’s water last year more than three Western states. Century-old water rights guarantee that supply.
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