Capital Press

Klamath water allocation disappoints irrigators

Saying that more water should be available to irrigators, the executive director of the Klamath Water Users Association expressed his frustration with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s initial ...
Post-Bulletin

Irrigators urged to become part of water protection process

SAUK CENTRE, Minn. — Get involved. Become engaged. That was the message state agencies and organizations stressed to the more than 100 people attending last week's Irrigators Association of Minnesota ...
OPB

Klamath irrigators vote for water deliveries even if it puts federal drought funding at risk

A group of farmers and ranchers in Southern Oregon have voted in favor of trying to access water in the parched Klamath Basin, even if it puts their access to federal drought funding in jeopardy. In a ...
OPB

Irrigators set up encampment next to Klamath Project headgates

Twenty years after a shut-off of most irrigation water in the parched Klamath Project brought the competing needs of farmers, fishermen and tribes to a head, a new drought — and a fresh ...
Joplin Globe

Irrigators review water tables

LAMAR, Mo. — As discussions about potential reservoir construction abound, area irrigators on Thursday were talking about water table levels. “Southwest Missouri is the hot area for water use right ...
Hays Post

Kansas Supreme Court examines roiling water dispute between crop irrigators and Hays, Russell

The Kansas Supreme Court is considering complex legal arguments about whether Hays and Russell can divert aquifer water from ...
Jefferson Public Radio

Oregon’s Harney Basin is now a critical groundwater area. Here’s what that means

Farmers in Harney County have come to rely on an aquifer that has long been known to be in serious decline. Now, Oregon water regulators will make drastic changes to how much water they can draw from ...
KUOW

As the Northwest spring arrives, so do anxieties over water for farming, and summer wildfires

A story in plot points: a federal map tracking the latest snowpack shows Oregon awash with royal blue, turquoise and green dots, but in Washington state there are many yellow dots, orange and even ...
Missoulian

Flathead irrigators to vote on water agreement with tribes

POLSON – Fee-land irrigators on the Flathead Indian Reservation who are members of the Flathead Joint Board of Control will be asked to vote yea or nay on a new proposed Flathead Indian Irrigation ...
The Weekly Times

Irrigators: “We may get a lift in allocation later in the season but it’s no good then”

Water values in some of the major irrigation areas in southern Australia are double what they were this time last year, according to trader Waterfind. Waterfind water broker Jason Pilgrim said ...
Yahoo

Idaho’s water crisis can be fixed. But are lawmakers still capable of fixing it? | Opinion

Lt. Gov. Scott Bedke speaks at a press conference in Pocatello, flanked by representatives of both sides of the East Snake Plain Aquifer conflict, in this June file photo. Last week, a curtailment ...