Friday, February 20, 2009

Zero for ag

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced today that Central Valley Project contractors in California will get no water for agriculture under the current drought conditions. It would take a lot of precipitation -- and in the right places -- for that to change.

The AP story is here. I can tell you that at an announcement this morning in Redding, local farmers were hot.

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