State officials are dumping freshwater into the ocean while intentionally depriving rice farmers of the water they need to grow food.
Colusa County in Northern California is the top producer of rice in the Sacramento Valley.
"In April 2022, the water districts serving Colusa County were given their final allocation for the 2022 growing season - 0.4-acre feet per acre," reads a statement from Colusa County officials.
"This allocation is not enough to support rice production, and estimates show that the Sacramento Valley will fallow 370,000 of 450,000 acres in the Sacramento River Settlement Contractors service area, primarily in Colusa and Glenn Counties. Currently, less than 7,000 acres are estimated to be planted in Colusa County, resulting in a direct financial loss to growers in excess of $270 million."
"Water in California is shared across three main sectors. Statewide, average water use is roughly 50% environmental, 40% agricultural, and 10% urban," revealed the Public Policy Institute of California back in 2019.
"We have the third largest farm worker housing in the state. Thousands of people come to Colusa County every season, and work with Colusa County's own people. Their children go to Colusa schools, so when they aren't here it impacts our ADA.".
"The last reservoir built in California was in 1979," wrote someone at Zero Hedge about how California politics have been driving the state on a downward spiral for decades.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-05-31-engineered-famine-california-deprives-farmers-of-water.html
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