Opinion: Can today’s ag techies track our precious water?
I will attempt to convince you the drought is simply an excuse to take our water and that farmers are the unfortunate victims, too. Just ask members of the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District (ACID), who thought they were safe from having their water taken because ACID holds a Sacramento River Settlement Contract with the United States Bureau of Reclamation. The contract states the irrigation district… will have their full supply of 100 percent cut to 25 percent (although some users say it’s 18 percent) even though their contract states 75 percent during critical years.
-Written by Shanna Long, a fourth generation journalist and former editor of the Corning Daily Observer.