This is 100% true and they've been doing it for years. We are small generational irrigators and haven't had water delivered to one of our fields for 20+ years due to "futile call". This video frames it as the government is shutting down the poor farmers when in reality, Eastern Idaho is a high desert and many of these irrigators have recently been breaking out desert ground into new pivots and pumping the aquifers dry. I know people who have lost water in their domestic wells because these big ground water irrigators quite literally suck the water out from underneath them.
This is 100% true and they've been doing it for years. We are small generational irrigators and haven't had water delivered to one of our fields for 20+ years due to "futile call". This video frames it as the government is shutting down the poor farmers when in reality, Eastern Idaho is a high desert and many of these irrigators have recently been breaking out desert ground into new pivots and pumping the aquifers dry. I know people who have lost water in their domestic wells because these big ground water irrigators quite literally suck the water out from underneath them.