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Barry Nelson on water transfers: A quiet solution for California farmers in dry times

Posted by: Maven on January 28, 2010 at 8:40 am

From Barry Nelson at the NRDC Switchboard blog:

“600,000 acre-feet is a lot of water. It’s just about a year’s supply of water for the City of Los Angeles. You’d think that a tool that provides this much water in California during a third consecutive dry year would be attracting headlines across the state.

You’d be wrong. The quiet solution here is water transfers – a powerful tool that has been nearly overlooked in the superheated media coverage of water in the past year.

The federal government helped to facilitate 600,000 acre-feet of water transfers during 2009.. Many of these transfers were made by farmers with senior water rights and abundant supplies, selling to their water-short neighbors.

That’s a lot of water, especially during a drought. So why aren’t transfers getting more attention? And why aren’t more farmers embracing them?

One answer lies in the checkered past of California’s water wars. … “

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January 28, 2010 · Filed Under Transfers

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