In this opinion piece, Stephen Benson a farmer and with Imperial Valley Water - @Ivh2O discusses the benefits if California's conservation strategies were implemented within the six other Colorado River Basin states. https://t.co/wCDLwCMIUT
Compared to the Imperial Valley, “96% of all irrigated agriculture in Yuma County, Arizona continues to use flood irrigation. This is exactly the kind of opportunity where federal dollars can help improve water conservation”
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@edmillard Some have built their livelihoods on the hope that the feds would break the law, while many of us have built our livelihoods on the expectation that the law would be honored.
Should the U.S. give up growing healthy greens to make way for continued urban expansion? If you like eating vegetables year round, water in the Imperial Valley is key:
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