Agriculture under pressure: The Imperial Valley braces for a future with less water
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- California’s desert farming powerhouse, the Imperial Valley, is bracing for a future with less Colorado River water. Throughout the Southwest, pressures are mounting for agriculture to shrink its water use further and faster. Politicians and managers of water districts in other states have called for California agencies including the Imperial Irrigation District to make larger cuts.
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We've got plenty of snowpack for you over in CO...Imperial Valley you can have ALL of it IMO! I love you all, farmers, growers, harvesters! We love you & appreciate that you grow our food. ❤️
We need ten times more than that over a span of several years to refill the reservoirs
That's just plan stupid Bonnie...
The Imperial Valley is growing food and feeding the country. What really needs to be looked at is building huge metropolis’s in deserts such as Las Vegas and Los Angeles. That is pure waste of water, all for money.
growing food in 115f weather? for the country? You know how much water crops need in such high temps......... talk about WASTE...
Show me the houses of those farmers. Then I can decide how much sympathy I have for them…
their houses do be big af compared to the ppl who live in the other parts
of the county^
The farmers are not the problem. The 50 million visitors that Las Vegas brings. Also they have overpopulation and they no longer can hide the wasted water for decades. How is that they can sustain that many residents and visitors if they only had a certain percentage of water rights? They claim that 40 million people depend on water then what’s Las Vegas been doing with over 50 million visitors? Seriously need to see what the problem is.
Stop farming water intensive crops.
Such as what ?
We need produce and vegetables that is a major part of what they grow.
@@H43339 For starters, alfalfa. People don't eat alfalfa. Furthermore, a good chunk of the alfalfa we grow isn't even used for California or American cattle. Selling alfalfa to Saudi Arabia and China is essentially exporting Colorado River water to other countries.
@@bobuhnitza According to Google, Only 6.4% of alfalfa is exported to other countries. So even though imperial valley does grow alot of alfalfa, they also grow alot of vegetables . So I think imperial valley farmers are very much needed in the USA and The World.
@@H43339 not in 115f weather....
Gracias llorron's !! For, admitting that without farmworkers thier would be no farming, neither in the Imperial nor Palo Verde Valley's. Farmworkers know more what is going on around you than what you would know.
Read the series: Colorado River in Crisis www.latimes.com/environment/story/colorado-river-in-crisis
Go no till and use cover crops! Your soil is awful and rain isn't infiltrating. Your land management is incredibly awful and irresponsible.
Nearly 40% of food in America is wasted, especially along the supply chain. Maybe we work on fixing that problem before we cater to these rich farmers whose only priority is profit.
Well maybe you should grow crops like everybody else one crop a year instead of three
They grow three crops a year to feed people, you want to go hungry ?
@@H43339 Alfalfa feeds cows overseas.
@@bigduginc It feeds animals here in the USA and we only export a small fraction of what we grow.
@@H43339 Your original comment said that they grow to feed people not animals. Both the Saudi's and the UAE have bought land and set up businesses in the valley to export crops to their homelands. If we don't start conserving there won't be any water to fight about.
@@bigduginc I was talking to you about your alfalfa comment, But The Imperial Valley grows produce and livestock food always have, and they should not be allowed to sell land to China, Saudi's, or anyone else, That's just common sense. Don't know what to say about that, except they should repo the land stop that immediately .
All the water here in California goes to the ocean instead of capturing it. Shameful
NOT one of the california moron s even thought about REVERSE PUMPING back to the damn in over flow
Build water harvesting / desalination plants to pull water out of the ocean with solar factories!