Once again, I am here as an Idaho local to inform you that this fight isn't new, and "these poor farmers" are glyphosate, GMO, and chemical fertilizer using, monocrop producing, big lawyer bullying, assholes who have been getting rich playing the system for 100+ years. Buying desert land for pennies on the dollar and then using nepotism to transfer water rights away from riparian areas to break out new fields has destroyed thousands of acres of wildlife habitat, displaced families, and over appropriated our basins. They think they've been clever when in fact, they've been unethical. My grandma's domestic well ran dry a few years ago. We haven't had water on some of our property for 30+ years because their money and nepotism codified theft. Reap what you sow.
Once again, I am here as an Idaho local to inform you that this fight isn't new, and "these poor farmers" are glyphosate, GMO, and chemical fertilizer using, monocrop producing, big lawyer bullying, assholes who have been getting rich playing the system for 100+ years. Buying desert land for pennies on the dollar and then using nepotism to transfer water rights away from riparian areas to break out new fields has destroyed thousands of acres of wildlife habitat, displaced families, and over appropriated our basins. They think they've been clever when in fact, they've been unethical. My grandma's domestic well ran dry a few years ago. We haven't had water on some of our property for 30+ years because their money and nepotism codified theft. Reap what you sow.
Article from 1995: https://www.hcn.org/issues/issue-29/no-more-ignoring-the-obvious-idaho-sucks-itself-dry/
This is happening all over the West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZwBSjBgMXg
Thanks for the local scoop. There's always a perspective rooted in reality we're conveniently protected from...
*Sew your pants and sow your seed...
Thanks, edited sew -> sow