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MSG Stan Hutchison
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Water usage has always been a controversial subject.
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
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Not good for the farmers...especially the cattle farmers.
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SPC Lyle Montgomery
SPC Lyle Montgomery
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But if it was for recreation, not agriculture the government would do something.
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
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SPC Lyle Montgomery - Yep...you are probably right.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."More than 1,000 farmers and ranchers who draw water from the Klamath River that flows from the Upper Klamath Lake to the Pacific Ocean will have access to roughly one-seventh the amount they could get in a wetter year, a federal agency announced Monday. Downstream salmon will receive about half the water they’d get if the reservoir was full.

It’s the third year in a row that severe drought has impacted farmers, fish and tribes in a region where there’s not enough water to satisfy competing demands. Last year, no water at all flowed through the Klamath Reclamation Project’s main irrigation canal, and thousands of downstream juvenile salmon died without reservoir releases to support the Klamath River’s health.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the irrigation project, announced $15 million in relief for affected farmers and $5 million for Native American tribes as a result of its decision and warned farmers not to take water beyond what was ordered or risk further irrigation reductions and legal action. The agency decides the allocations each year, taking into account court rulings that require certain lake levels to support two federally endangered fish species.

Across the American West, a 22-year megadrought deepened so much last year that the region is now in the driest spell in at least 1,200 years — a worst-case climate change scenario playing out in real time, a study found last month."...
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