Posted on 06/22/2024 1:33:04 AM PDT by CFW
Eastern Idaho farmers may soon be out of water after the state issued a major curtailment.
Brian Murdock, a farmer who resides in East Idaho, warned of the potential devastating impact of the order on his business during his appearance on "The Bottom Line" Wednesday.
"Well, as you said, the state of Idaho and the Idaho Department of Water Resources has issued this curtailment of 500,000 acres. And to help put that in perspective, that's basically 781 square miles of farm ground that is being taken out of production," Murdock stressed.
"And, of course, the worst problem is this is happening during a very plentiful water year. We have the reservoirs [that] are completely full, and when I mean full, they're dang near breaking. The rivers are running as high as they possibly can. Just trying to keep those dams from breaking," he added.
The Idaho Groundwater Appropriators, which represents agricultural, industrial and municipal ground water users across southeastern Idaho, described the order as the single largest curtailment of water use in state history. It would result in the drying up of hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland and could cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in economic losses.
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All part of the plan to destroy this nations food supply, which will also severely impact the rest of the world.
We’re on our own, folks. Learn to garden and grow your own, and become friends with local farmers and frequent farmer’s markets while you can.
Bill Gates is largest owner of private farmland in U.S., with acreage across 18 states
I was going to mention this too. It mentioned that the slimy crowd in DC have a personal interest in the cobalt mine.
How can they tell farmers that they can’t draw water from their own wells?
Why are they being told they can’t?
Why obey and go bankrupt? The farmers should organize, get a team of lawyers, draw the water they need, and explain it to the court!
“explain it to the court!”
You mean those Soros judges?
Sorry Idaho. I’m too sick and old to drive thousands of miles to protect your Rights like I used to!
You should have listened 25 years ago when we tried to warn you!
“How can they tell farmers that they can’t draw water from their own wells?”
I do not know Idaho law, however here in Montana actually have a system of courts ‘The Water Courts’ which adjudicate water rights.
We drilled our well on ‘95 and have water right #12,xxx. We keep our certificate in a safe deposit box at our bank.
Our water right gives us the RIGHT to pull water from our well for any purpose we desire up to a maximum of X amount of acre/feet per year (I did the math once and we can pump out 10 gallons per minute 24/7/365 - a lot of water!).
If we have a drought the highest numbers water rights could be curtailed - - this has never happened.
The #1 water right ‘in my county’ is Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, I know but we have to drive through YNP to get to the southern part of our county).
Idaho must NOT have the legal protection that we enjoy here in Montana...
Determine who benefits financially from the order. Then: FOLLOW. THE. MONEY.
Please Please Please don’t let them destroy our bug and algae food processing industries.
While Idaho Farmers Are Having Their Water Shutoff Look What’s Happening In Arizona
“During one of the worst mega droughts of the past 1200 years—Saudi Arabian owned company is allowed to pump unlimited amounts of groundwater to irrigate farm fields”
The crop is sent overseas
“We’re out here in the middle of the Arizona desert during one of the worst mega droughts of the past 1200 years. So you might be surprised to know that a Saudi Arabian owned company is being allowed to use these pumps to pump unlimited amounts of groundwater to irrigate farm fields in the desert and grow one of the most water intensive crops there is, alfalfa.
So what is this company doing with all of this alfalfa? Well, they’re putting it on trucks, and they put it on trains, and they put it on ships, and they send it back to the Middle East.
So why are they growing these crops out here in Arizona instead of back home? Well, it’s illegal to grow a crop like alfalfa in Saudi Arabia because it uses too much water.
The attorney general of Arizona says this is an outrage. She says this is scandalous, and she’s trying to get these leases with her on state owned land canceled so this will stop happening. She says that these foreign companies should not be allowed to operate here in Arizona, especially now that water is a depressions”
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1804470731025313970
Same as the BulletTrain in CaCaLand. Gov’mt and donors want to foreclose and own.
Same as gov’mt encouraging and supporting the Antif/BLM hired thugs burning and murdering: foreclose and own.
Excllent! Thank you for that informative reply! It explains a lot if Idaho doesn’t have a Water Court like Montana does.
Ditto ... sadly.
They are are always readily available.
“Water curtailment order lifted for farmers in East Idaho”
Shush, peasant. You’ll ruin the Saturday morning “we’re all gonna die!” party.
So from what I understand, the surface rights owners downstream (Twin Falls and the Treasure Valley I believe) have first rights that supersede the groundwater rights of the potato farmers in Eastern Idaho (Idaho Falls, Blackfoot, etc.). Everyone had signed off on this awhile back, but I don’t think everyone understood exactly what was going to happen. The Water Board appears to just be following what the court order says - so the upshot is that there’s a lot of finger pointing going on and they’ve relented for this year. It’s kind of like in Colorado where Nebraska has first dibs on the water and you can’t wash your car if you live up in the mountains near one of the Platte’s feeder streams/rivers (yes, NE has first dibs and then the Eastern Plains and then upstream for the South Platte). I’m paying attention to this since we’re considering relocating to East Idaho (more medical options than where we are in WY) and have been watching the “East Idaho News” videos on YouTube. Hopefully things will work out, but the water owners downstream have to agree to let them keep using the groundwater to grow potatoes...
So cobalt mined for cars no one wants, govt has to be behind this
I’d like to know if this affect the rich guys...like JR Simplot company or the Chobani company, which I understand has a big operation in the Twin Falls area....
Just turn on the wells, and get activists to help you defend yourselves. Like the Bundy Ranch, don’t ask permission, as forgiveness later.
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