12:45 on 5-3-2024. I'm so glad that we finally have people coming together to try to solve a huge problem that I started working on 17 years ago. With all the effort some of us put into getting petitions signed to try to stop the large corporate farms and deep wells being drilled. Time and time again we were shot down with the idea that we didn't know what we were talking about even though we had experts and their testimony backing us. I had lost hope last summer that we would ever accomplish anything so now I believe we are headed in the right direction and all the hard work over the years has finally made the right people listen and understand and I can't be happier that everyone's energy and ideas will make it happen.
Judy, it’s because everyone is beginning to work together, despite politics. A lot of people have awoken to see that our water truly IS on it’s way out if we don’t make changes in our legislature so it will start taking care of not only our small farmers, but the common person who just wants to live here and enjoy the desert.
I live here and need to make some comments to round out the story. 1. Ed Curry's farm is organic and a beautiful example of what should be grown in an arid environment. Plants requiring little water. 2. Our rain takes 12 years to reach the aquafer. 3. Subsidence is reducing places underground water can collect. 4. The AMA is not a solution. In over 40 years they have yet to reach their recharge goals and have not put a stop to large ag. 5. Water here is free, land is cheap. To reduce the big commercial ag start charging them for water. 6. Develop a fund large ag must pay into to redrill residential wells that have gone dry due to big ag's huge water consumption. 7. Any water management groups need to include some residential folks not involved in ag.
Beautifully shot video of my hometown and region. Your storytelling here tells the plight of what the valley is having to deal with right now and of the best ones I've seen on this as of late!
12:45 on 5-3-2024. I'm so glad that we finally have people coming together to try to solve a huge problem that I started working on 17 years ago. With all the effort some of us put into getting petitions signed to try to stop the large corporate farms and deep wells being drilled. Time and time again we were shot down with the idea that we didn't know what we were talking about even though we had experts and their testimony backing us. I had lost hope last summer that we would ever accomplish anything so now I believe we are headed in the right direction and all the hard work over the years has finally made the right people listen and understand and I can't be happier that everyone's energy and ideas will make it happen.
Judy, it’s because everyone is beginning to work together, despite politics. A lot of people have awoken to see that our water truly IS on it’s way out if we don’t make changes in our legislature so it will start taking care of not only our small farmers, but the common person who just wants to live here and enjoy the desert.
I live here and need to make some comments to round out the story.
1. Ed Curry's farm is organic and a beautiful example of what should be grown in an arid environment. Plants requiring little water.
2. Our rain takes 12 years to reach the aquafer.
3. Subsidence is reducing places underground water can collect.
4. The AMA is not a solution. In over 40 years they have yet to reach their recharge goals and have not put a stop to large ag.
5. Water here is free, land is cheap. To reduce the big commercial ag start charging them for water.
6. Develop a fund large ag must pay into to redrill residential wells that have gone dry due to big ag's huge water consumption.
7. Any water management groups need to include some residential folks not involved in ag.
Beautifully shot video of my hometown and region. Your storytelling here tells the plight of what the valley is having to deal with right now and of the best ones I've seen on this as of late!
Yes,I agree.