The 208: Idaho water rights issues continue

The Idaho Department of Water Resources issued an order on May 30 to curtail or shut off the groundwater rights of junior water owners.

[@bradhowlett1]

Ask why the government would wait until AFTER all the farmers planted to shut off the water. Even if it's turned back on in a week or two, crops will be lost and farmers bankrupt. The timing was deliberate. Who benefits if the farms go bankrupt?

[@zeroshepard9513]

The republicans who get lobbied by big agro.

[@bradhowlett1]

@@zeroshepard9513 you went ONE step up the $$$ ladder. Keep going.

[@zeroshepard9513]

@@bradhowlett1 I know where the shell game starts. The trump flags tell me these farmers dont know a thing. I get local news in different states everyday, since I drive for a living and the news doesnt tell anyone the whole story.

[@paigewhite1251]

So bill can buy it.

[@gazingsky7987]

@@zeroshepard9513 This have nothing to do with Republicans but the whole U.S government as a whole.

[@bcas357]

Yeah rules?? How about generations of farmers?? WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE

[@rosereeder2612]

The lakes and rivers are full

[@paigewhite1251]

Wow! I had been seeing people make vids about that somewhere 🥴😩 They should at _least_ explain "why?" .

[@rlbrown1009]

🚜 Farmers need water 💧in order for them to grow our food. We have no drought currently. This is completely ridiculous!

[@ChasRebel420]

That the plan. To stave us.

[@odever6585]

If they shut of all of the farmers water it will ruin our economy.

[@winterskymoonranch]

And that is the point.

[@user-xw2jf4fn1h]

Voote out the foolish government

[@richardwallace690]

There goes potatoes prices sky high caused by government

[@pamelamccrory7197]

There goes potatoes.

[@j.e.9017]

🤔

[@richardwallace690]

There is alot of water this is the dumbest thing out there

[@noahriding5780]

70% of all Idaho potatoes come from this affected area. If they allow this to occur without immediate intervention and punishment it will starve the country. Idaho is also the top #1 producer by rank in potato production. This is too important for the country to be allowed to happen. It could even create food riots in some areas. This is too important to allow to happen.

[@MikeGreenwood51]

Can some one not refill theaquafers. Direct astream or river in to it.

[@frankbob4163]

It’s not some huge cave that’s just holding water it’s just a region of moist soil. It’s like when you dig in the sand at the beach you will hit water but you can’t add to it you will just fill up your own hole

[@paigewhite1251]

*EVERYTHING will be a ok **_after_** ill fates gates buys the land of his potato competitor$*

[@troyparkin3536]

The governor is a joker

[@saqibnawaz5139]

Wen sagebrush was rampant 1950s den junior rights wur ok to make it arable farmers invested billions in dollars in infrastructure & vry hard labor to mitigate sagebrush now to save 1acre senior water rights r trying to destroy 7acres totaling 500000acres can turn into biggest land grab is US history wen farmers hav mortgage everything, timing of curtailment wen potatoes crops r in middle of season is horrible by cutting of water crops wilb destroyed economic downturn will Annihilate vry poor farmers agri rental groups communities & businesses,vry hopefully Great state of Idaho Gov will act as a vry Passionate leader while try to put some concrete steps to raise aquifer levels & will find some common grounds for prosperity of poor farmer of Great state of Idaho

[@tomhaffly7498]

Guess those cobalt mines need more water….. Don’t forget the data centers Bezos wants to build.

[@mikehocking4836]

And the developers investors golf courses ect. Not just the mines lunger

[@1dash133]

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.”

[@shawnsanders2182]

How much of the water is diverted to cool electronics such as your data mining warehouses

[@goodday23456]

Why doesn't the National Guard send flood water from the North Minnesota to the farmers ?

[@j.e.9017]

🤔

[@RivhardDavenport]

NO FARMS, NO FOOD!!! WE NEED FOOD!!!! GET THE WATER TO ALL FARMERS!!! TRUCK IT IN IF YOU HAVE TO!!!

[@denisehill1215]

There is plenty of water just greedy people who benefits from this and buys up the foreclosed farms?

[@OuttaHere7]

Government gone MAD!

[@user-bm8tl1tj2t]

Easier to control starving citizens

[@carterwgtx]

The regulation is complicated...but the issue is not - there simply is not enough water to meet all the demand. No government, no single wet year, and no amount of wishing will change that. To all farmers, particularly junior users, this is your warning - every hydrologist has said this day will come (where we figured all this out decades ago...why do you think those agreements were signed in the first place), and that day is here. Its time to pull your red heads out of the sand, the climate has changed, the fossilized groundwater is being exhausted, this unique wet year has not solved the problem, and you WILL have to do something different in the coming years. Stop complaining about the government taking your water and start having those hard conversations about real solutions for your farm - because the reality is - all of you will not be in business in 10 years - you are farming water intensive crops with fossilized groundwater water in the high mountain desert - this always was a temporary enterprise.

[@user-jk3ht5hn3m]

Ok let me try and understand this,y’all hate and despise imminent domain but you love the silver spoon in his mouth real estate developer.Hmmmm?

[@zeroshepard9513]

Your force breeding women and then fighting over water. The cart is in front of the horse people. Or are you hoping pregnant women die so you have more water for everyone else?

[@gorditosexy29707]

Feel better?😂

[@user-jk3ht5hn3m]

Ok let me try and understand this,y’all hate and despise imminent domain but you love the silver spoon in his mouth real estate developer.Hmmmm?