Idaho farmers and water ?

[Jmort1754]

Are they limiting water use out there ?

 

[Andrew12gauge]

Are they limiting water use out there ?

I was reading an article about this in the local paper today. Sounds like they struck a deal. Weird situation, I don’t understand all of it. Fight between surface water users and ground water users and who has first right to water usage


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[Customweld]

In Idaho, whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting!

 

[TheTone]

People with junior rights made at people with older water rights is my take on it. Not sure how they don’t understand the pecking order of who gets water. To be fair they’re all hammering the water in southern and eastern Idaho. Most if not all of that land isn’t fit for farming unless you put a ton of water to it

 

[Customweld]

People with junior rights made at people with older water rights is my take on it. Not sure how they don’t understand the pecking order of who gets water. To be fair they’re all hammering the water in southern and eastern Idaho. Most if not all of that land isn’t fit for farming unless you put a ton of water to it

Groundwater users are sucking that aquifer dry. It's going to get uglier before it all gets hammered out.

 

[IDVortex]

Groundwater users are sucking that aquifer dry. It's going to get uglier before it all gets hammered out.

I'm waiting until Idaho is the next Cali with water issues. Especially around CDA area, Boise, and the SE. More growth without any regards to the aquifers, can't wait for sink holes to start popping up.

 

[MuleyFever]

I'm waiting until Idaho is the next Cali with water issues.

 

[MuleyFever]

In all seriousness the water issues in the SW is getting real. I don't understand how these areas all keep growing with no real water conservation rules. We cant water between these hours is their solution. All ornamental grass should be banned in these areas. We had a whole development go under a few years ago because the ground started sinking from what is thought is the draining of the ground water. Our area is looking at projects in the Billions to pipe water in.

 

[Customweld]

I'm waiting until Idaho is the next Cali with water issues. Especially around CDA area, Boise, and the SE. More growth without any regards to the aquifers, can't wait for sink holes to start popping up.

The Boise aquifers are in pretty decent shape. Most of the ag in the Treasure Valley is surface water irrigation. Most of the cities are deep well water users, but Boise (Veolia) is a mixture of surface and deep well drinking water.

 

[wyojdubya]

People with junior rights made at people with older water rights is my take on it. Not sure how they don’t understand the pecking order of who gets water. To be fair they’re all hammering the water in southern and eastern Idaho. Most if not all of that land isn’t fit for farming unless you put a ton of water to it

This sums it up. The state manages the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer as a combined unit with the Snake River itself, because the two are hydrologically connected. So, groundwater that a junior rights holder pumps out of the aquifer is water removed from the river. That's why a senior surface water user (of which there are many) can call on a junior groundwater pumper (of which there are also many) to be shut off to ensure water is available to the senior. Which is what led to all the fuss of late.

 

[Customweld]

It's going to be interesting to see what shakes out when they all come to the table (and they will have to), A lot of key legislators are members of both groups. There are also city interest in all of this as a few of them are junior rights holders.

 

[Minute_of_Antelope]

The conspiracy theorist rabbit hole posits that the initial curtailment order coincides with a big increase of water usage from cobalt mining. Just so happens that Idaho’s biggest employer, micron, needs that stuff.

But what do I know. Just a caveman.

 

[IDVortex]

The conspiracy theorist rabbit hole posits that the initial curtailment order coincides with a big increase of water usage from cobalt mining. Just so happens that Idaho’s biggest employer, micron, needs that stuff.

But what do I know. Just a caveman.

Are you saying Boise is more worried about making sure a big money maker for them keeps running? I'd never think that.

 

[Idaboy]

It's going to be interesting to see what shakes out when they all come to the table (and they will have to), A lot of key legislators are members of both groups. There are also city interest in all of this as a few of them are junior rights holders.

Agree, it's gonna be a big fight, or at least a lot of court time

 

[Customweld]

Agree, it's gonna be a big fight, or at least a lot of court time

The only party that's going to benefit from all of it are the attorneys.

 

[Idaboy]

The only party that's going to benefit from all of it are the attorneys.

Exactly