Calif. farmers want to sell water
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With water becoming increasingly precious in California, a rising number of farmers figure they can make more money by selling their water than by actually growing something.
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Crops damaged by recent wet weather are being left to rot because it is too wet to harvest them, farmers say.
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By Jeff St. John, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Mar. 3--A world's worth of water technology expertise is coming to Fresno next month, and the central San Joaquin Valley is invited.
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By Jim Johnson, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 25--When the Petersens' well ran dry in June, the family dealt with the lack of water the best they could.   The Prunedale residents spent hundreds of dollars for thousands of gallons of water to be trucked to their home.
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By GALLOWAY, Jill  Lots of farmers have stood next to their dairy effluent ponds and watched the biogas bubble up and disappear into the air.
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By John Dickey, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Feb. 24--Sutter County will have to come up with millions of dollars if it hopes to secure some of the more than $4 billion in Proposition 1E flood protection money.   A local citizens panel will figure out how.
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By Anna King, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 5--BENTON CITY -- A lot of money is riding on a Kennewick Irrigation District proposal to bring more water to Red Mountain.
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By Mark Grossi, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 14--Dairy farmer Eric Westra told state regulators Wednesday he has good reasons for complying with potentially expensive new water rules.
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The Bush administration agreed Tuesday to pay California farmers $16.7 million to compensate for water the government held back to preserve two imperiled fish species in the early 1990s, a pact that some legal experts said will make it harder for the federal government to protect endangered species.
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The farms served by the Central Valley Project, the country's largest irrigation system, get about 20 percent of California's water supply.
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By Erin Sherbert, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 8--East Contra Costa farmers soon will be able to operate larger roadside stands as well as farm markets, giving them more opportunities to sell their fruits and vegetables.
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A proposal to send more water to Central Valley fields and Southern California neighborhoods could undermine ecological gains in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, environmentalists say.
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 4--Effluent has become so valuable that Marana wants to buy a Pima  County sewage treatment plant just to have access to the water it will  generate.
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By Henry Brean  By HENRY BREAN  REVIEW-JOURNAL  If this whole water thing doesn't work out, officials from the Southern Nevada Water Authority could make a go of it in the alfalfa market.
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By DAN MCKAY Journal Staff Writer  Water conservation is coming to unincorporated Bernalillo County.
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By Erik Lacayo, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 14--ARMONA -- In an attempt to save their Armona farm from becoming a water treatment plant, members of a Texas family pleaded their case before the local water district Wednesday night.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ At the Golden Gate, the sea is rising.  In the Sierra Nevada, the snowpack is shrinking.  These developments, attributable to a warming climate, threaten one of California's most indispensable resources: water.