Idaho groundwater users remain in limbo

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Ай бұрын

Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer has been declining since the 1950s, leaving some farmers in Idaho are in limbo as negotiations continue to avoid a water curtailment.

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@MaxRunia Ай бұрын

Brad Little needs to be voted out along with his water resources people.

@Brian1961-ep4bq Ай бұрын

This is what you get when Californians moving here and your property taxes go sky high they're kicking people out their minimum wage here's been 7.25 an hour for the past 28 years so you're paying triple the rent trying to make a your house payment in your car payment and now it's the water

@harrylongabaugh871 Ай бұрын

The powers to be in Idaho need to do their job. Cutting of growers at mid season is absolutely unacceptable! There's always a solution that will make everybody happy. Find it Idaho! P.S. Your starting to sound like California! Is that what you want? Get it together!

@evanstauffer4470 Ай бұрын

There is never a solution that will make everybody happy. A good compromise is something everybody can live with, but it doesn't necessarily make them happy.

@user-vs2cz7wg2r Ай бұрын

Why don't you fact check the rules for homeowners who are irrigating over a 1/2 acre from there domestic wells, as well. Especially those who bought dry acreage building lots. How many subdivisions use well water because they are outside city services. If they have water rights they don't last the whole season and are undependable so most depend on their well and sprinkler systems. No farms no food!!! Keep irrigating that oversized lawn and pasture you don't have rights for. You are using ground water that could have maintained the aquifer for these farmers who put food on your tables.

@alanstander4351 Ай бұрын

Right. It actually uses more water to water lawns than the same amount of hay. A house uses ground water year round depending on how long of showers kids like to take, where irrigation ends at the end of the season. People don't realize how much water their household consumes

@georgepoore3840 Ай бұрын

What are the political forces at play here ?

@georgepoore3840 Ай бұрын

sounds like a MAGA stunt to me .

@noahriding5780 Ай бұрын

See above, I've commented on this which should answer your question.

@lv4tmnt90 Ай бұрын

Food or electric cars? That is the real fight here. Keep cobalt mining away from our food sources.

@OldRedTractors Ай бұрын

control food and water, and you control the people

@blackout7615 Ай бұрын

He said it! Climate change. Lol.

@mvcharisma2968 Ай бұрын

Funny how the same day the water is going to be shut off is the exact same day that a new Cobalt mine opens up near by which needs TONS of water to mine cobalt for ‘green energy’ lithium batteries

@noahriding5780 Ай бұрын

Yes. That's it. I also commented about that above. Not a coincidence.

@seandunlop8052 Ай бұрын

As soon as I heard climate change I started laughing….

@IOSARBX Ай бұрын

KTVB, This video is a winner!

@carlatamanczyk3891 Ай бұрын

All the farmers nationwide better band together and petition or sue to have the phony excuse of climate change entirely thrown out of the entire equation.

@lv4tmnt90 Ай бұрын

Farmers and food services!

@noahriding5780 Ай бұрын

This area is too important to fail. Most of the potatoes in the entire country come out of this area. Its a HUGE stake in grocery store volume across the country. But its also likely that the people who stole the water if they can't get their way, will just start stealing it anyway underground also through illegal pumping. And they'd do that because they've shown they already don't care about the law, and put themselves above others; this means its a matter of time before they'll try it again but this time without being noticed. Others are saying that the people who stole the water did so, to try to muscle in so they can make cobalt batteries that take a lot of water to cool in their manufacturing process. And this means it won't be that hard to figure out who this culprit is.

@JMC-xr6ys Ай бұрын

Thank you get the word out!

@NAT-qo6mz Ай бұрын

Has China owned farm land in America been cut off their water?

@brushcrawler8612 Ай бұрын

Of course not...white people are the target

@tinoyb9294 Ай бұрын

Meanwhile, the planet is on fire.

@lisagiffen6840 Ай бұрын

Climate change my a$$

@yvn7326 Ай бұрын

Is the cobalt mining still being done? 24/7 water use? Let's see food, lively hoods , or cobalt?

@1dash133 Ай бұрын

UPDATE June 19, 2024: Water Curtailment Order lifted (Idaho Press) Groundwater irrigators and surface water irrigators have completed a deal that saves 330,000 acres of Idaho farmland from being dried up and averts economic catastrophe in the state. A mitigation agreement for 2024, brokered by Governor Brad Little and Lt. Governor Scott Bedke, has now been signed by all parties and has been submitted to the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR for approval. When the deal is approved, IDWR will lift the curtailment for all nine ground water districts whose patrons irrigate with groundwater from the ESPA. “This is a huge relief to our members, who have had their livelihoods threatened over the past month,” said TJ Budge, attorney for Idaho Ground Water Appropriators. “We want to thank Governor Little, Lt. Governor Bedke, Senator Van Burtenshaw and, especially, all of our groundwater district members for their sincere and significant efforts to get a deal done before it was too late.”

@lulajohns1883 Ай бұрын

Those water systems waste so much water. Isn't there a better form of irrigation

@lv4tmnt90 Ай бұрын

Yes and no. The people with the top water rights are F ing farmers over. Cobalt mining companies are coming for the lands.

@donaa.6996 Ай бұрын

Water must be given to our farmers- you can bet there is a secret event being planed!

@jsquared5405 Ай бұрын

Those who control the food control the people

@brushcrawler8612 Ай бұрын

"Freest state in the country" they said 😂

@bille7650 Ай бұрын

LISTEN UP......The REAL REASON for the water problem is: COBALT MINE IN IDAHO.....NEED WATER

@garymcmullin2292 26 күн бұрын

water is a limited resource in the arid west, these Idaho guys are sounding like the fight over who uses water and for what and how much is brand new. Cripes here in eastern Washington that battle has raged for decades. Farming is a necessary and vital activity. Big business farming, that is to say farming to export crops is not. Oh it is to the farmers that have decided that this is how they want to make a buck and get through life. Farming has relied on the high social value of farming to pave the way and deliver public resources to hand. The tendency is to assume they will prevail against regulatory efforts because after all they are farmers. I do not discount that the elements of woke government might be at work here too, but even so the farming activity cannot assume business as usual with regard to water resources. There are cases here in south central washington where expansion of irrigated land way over exceeded water resources, in some cases the land was returned to fallow.

@suzann7062 Ай бұрын

Maybe the water is needed for Colbalt mining? Money for Ukraine diverted to Idaho for the colbalt!

@007prerry Ай бұрын

A philosophical disagreement the man said. Your economy is made of potatoes sir. Stop being ignorant stop allowing yourself to be bullied. Be a man and make a stand.