Just off the Logan River is a new diversion structure designed to help farmers in the Cache Valley use water more efficiently. “The canal company spent almost $2 million over the last year putting in a new diversion structure here behind us with automated, real-time water measurement and piping the first mile or so of our canal company,” said Nathan Daugs with the Cache Water District. “That gives us the option, or ability, to measure exactly what we’re diverting with our water right.” The Cache Water District is looking at other ways of stretching water resources further. Some of the small canal company’s farmers are participating in a pilot project with the Great Salt Lake Commissioner’s Office to test a new law allowing them to treat water like another crop and lease it to the lake.