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Feds Withhold Water To California Farmers For First Time In 54 Years
The US Bureau of Reclamation released its first outlook of the year and finds insufficient stock is available in California to release irrigation water for farmers. This is the first time in the 54 year history of the State Water Project. "If it's not there, it's just not there," notes a Water Authority director adding that it's going to be tough to find enough water, but farmers are hit hardest as "they're all on pins and needles trying to figure out how they're going to get through this." Fields will go unplanted (supply lower mean food prices higher), or farmers will pay top dollar for water that's on the market (and those costs can only be passed on via higher food prices).
Via AP,
Federal officials announced Friday that many California farmers caught in the state's drought can expect to receive no irrigation water this year from a vast system of rivers, canals and reservoirs interlacing the state.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released its first outlook of the year, saying that the agency will continue to monitor rain and snow fall, but the grim levels so far prove that the state is in the throes of one of its driest periods in recorded history.
Unless the year turns wet, many farmers can expect to receive no water from the federally run Central Valley Project.
... the state's snowpack is at 29 percent of average for this time of year.
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California officials who manage the State Water Project, the state's other major water system, have already said they won't be releasing any water for farmers, marking a first in its 54-year history.
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"They're all on pins and needles trying to figure out how they're going to get through this," Holman said, adding that Westland's 700 farmers will choose to leave fields unplanted, draw water from wells or pay top dollar for water that's on the market.
Farmers are hit hardest, but they're not alone. Contractors that provide cities with water can expect to receive half of their usual amount, the Bureau said, and wildlife refuges that need water flows in rivers to protect endangered fish will receive 40 percent of their contracted supply.
Contractors that provide farmers with water and hold historic agreements giving them senior rights will receive 40 percent of their normal supplies. Some contracts date back over a century and guarantee that farmers will receive at least 75 percent of their water.
One of those is the San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Authority in Los Banos that provides irrigation for 240,000 acres of farmland.
The Water Authority's executive director Steve Chedester said farmers he serves understand that the reality of California's drought means it's going to be tough to find enough water for them. "They're taking a very practical approach," he said. "If it's not there, it's just not there."
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What happens when chemtrails hit HAARP? What if reptilians guide beta flares in that mix too?
Simple! We'll channel coherent delta radiation into the dilithium matrix and amp up the phase coils with a transmat timey-wimey.
Yes, this is so serious we need the help of both Captain Picard AND Doctor Who.
God forbid a sunami hit the SW Florida 'Gold Coast'. That would be way to much reality for the 1%er wannabes.
Obviously, since HAARP is currently inactive and not that HAARP could heat up a box of Hot Pockets in the first place...
The whackadoos are out in full force today...
\facepalm...
Actually HAARP could do a LOT Of heating but the question is WHERE: upper ionosphere. That's... not going to cause a drought. As I wrote in another message, you could give Commiefornia a dirty look and it will get a drought & a wildfire about 10 minutes later. Even in winter.
Is HAARP inactive? There've been attempts to read pulses from the ionosphere to determine if it's active, without being told, so I'm curious, how frequently do you check? And how?
Water? Like whats in the toilet? No, no, no, wrong. Everyone knows that plants need Brawndo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vw2CrY9Igs
They'll fuck the farmers over, so the State can take their land.
Wait for it, they want that land and the water rights for the future.
They'll fuck the land owners over and sell it to Conagra or Monsanto.
+ 240,000 San Joaquin valley acres.
If Art Bell was back on real radio he could incite a mass group praye for rainr.Although he had to give that up because it caused floods several times. When George Noory tries it nothing ever happens.
I like ZeroHead's idea except it wouldn't create enough debt. I'd get the water from one of Jupiter's moons instead.
2035:
Corp sends a space mission to Jupiter and Mars to collect dirt unpolluted by Fuk-O-Shima.
It will be interesting to see how the change in supply effects prices. The rise may start sooner rather then later in anticipation of higher prices in the future. Prices under the pressure of changes in supply and demand can be a lot like a carnival ride. By this I mean fast and abrupt swings can take place and often we see prices go to unimaginable extremes. It would be better to say changes in "supply or demand", we should fully realize the market works best when at least one side of the equation remains somewhat stable. The article below explores this subject,
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/02/inflation-can-effect-supply-and-d...
Simple. California can enlist the help of Argentina to make all water free.
Obeeone Kirschnobee, you're our only hope!
We need higher taxes on the rich - more labor unions - more federal government involvement - additional government agencies at city, state, county and federal levels - at least 75,000 pages of new regulations - gun control - more money for education - affirmative action - a $10.10 minimum wage - immigration reform and a name for it all that will make a cool sounding acronym.
Oh wait - what was the problem again?
I guess it doesn't matter - the same solution works for every problem.
/s/
Is it any wonder there is a serious campaign underway to vote on splitting CA into six seperate states?
There seems to be quite a few movements like this going on: the conservative folks in rural areas are damned sick and tired of being dictated to by the left wing loons in the large cities. Power to the People!
what about the non-conservative rural folk?
Pretty sure having a good idea of what to do with land & independence is not left/right or conservative/non-conservative. Also pretty sure if you had any sense in you as someone to live off the land, you WOULDN'T BE IN CALIFORNIA to begin with.
Maybe Janet can print up some debt and make it rain.
There is a minor possibility that the Feds know something the media cannot acknowledge: They've lost the "bread basket of the world" to pollution from Fukushima... it is no longer 'safe' to grow foods in the now toxic California soils, no matter where the water could come from....
Of course we could catch the rainwater and use it for our own use....NOT!
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/oregon-man-sentenced-30-days-jail-collec...
Precisely. To think the state is so arrogant as to believe it is the owner of what is on your property, then what is property? Or the owner of NATURE ITSELF, of rain, the sky, the clouds, the sun. What ARROGANCE. Anyone stopping a person from collecting their own rain on their own property should be jailed. Not the other way around.
Without question or doubt, America is more communist than China.
The place should never had had so many farmers in the first place. How was it made possible? Through gross misallocation of water, only possible with gigantic subsidies.
http://mises.org/daily/6568/
All the MORE reason to start our own gardens in this country....Wheather in the yard or rooftop. Hopefully All can get Organic seed
instead of the Monsanto shit........May your garden flourish.......
While it's nice to have organic seeds; it's infinitely more important that your seeds are "Heritage" seeds.
After a year or two your seeds will be organic anyway.
Never let a crisis go by. Conspiracy anyone.
While its a relatively dry year, its not that there isn't any water to flow to farmers. Its that the feds would rather save fish that will be traveling to the sea.
Where water policy's made by
persons working for policy
privatizers, that's like health
care policy made by health care
privatizers and banking policy by
banking privatizers.
Here's HEALTH (though pre-O/C one
couldn't move, often, from San Diego to
Las Vegas for a job/real estate op lest he
suffered an exclusion)
http://www.multiurl.com/la/Just_Another_Privatization_Like_Ending_Net_Ne...
with an overriding built-in austerity clause;
http://blogs.investors.com/capitalhill/index.php/home/35-politicsinvesti...
BANKING:
the bail-in's, most obviously, but
also of course it's the right/wrong
side of the tracks as to interest rates:
free reserves for those who create the
bubbles, with creating bubbles the main
profit engine where the middle class is
shafted in the first place
(The bubble sellers should've cleared
the market/ended the crisis years ago/
banks-skin in the game--borrowers with
only 5% down cause it was getting sold
to securitization/let off to play another
day)
Those who actually sold the bubble are
now entering year 6 of getting nothing
on the entire proceeds of entire homes.
WATER:
In California, the deal for Fred Farmer was
you get a discount on water today in
return of portioning when needed later.
That's at 1:20.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN9DsbqEMVQ
The puppets become virtuous simply
by creating scapegoats.
A puppet in one state may very likely serve a
water user in another state.
While the puppets make policy, parents
in the Southwest hire private prison
fillers to criminalize each other's
children for being children.
Selling out to privatized authority, probably not
actually embracing privatized authority, which
may get into Stockholm Syndrome
territory, by taking a discount up
front in return for losing a percentage
of a whole livelihood later, is akin
to the privatization of the absence of
risk in return for some give up front
in other sectors, and most poignantly,
only in my opinion on all scores, akin to
taking some money up front in return
for giving a percentage of life's
earnings to the lender.
It wouldn't be the 1st time that what was said was not done
It wouldn't be the 1st time that what was said was not done
San Francisco takes its water from what was part of the original Yosemite NP. SF used its political power, with the help of the Sierra Club, to cut the original NP in half and take over the Hetch Hetchy valley in order to get its water. It is time for SF to give up that water and the US government should return Yosemite to its original boundries. SF now is weatthy and can affort a desalinization plant. And let anyone who thinks the Sierra Club really cares about the environment, look at this sordid behavior on its part. The water should go back into the river system where it can be allocated to better uses.
if the pools are still filled & the lawns still watered, this goes to show why Commifornia will fail & should fail. It's a fucking desert - learn yer lesson, bitchez.
I feel bad as I have family there but they aren't stupid. They migrated once to get there, they know the drill.
Yah, because we all know that trees and plants prefer cold temperatures. That's why Canada supplies the world with oranges and tomatoes.
This will cause the prices of fruits and vegetables to rise dramatically. Can you think of a better way to force the American people to believe in global warming?