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Valadao says the thing that’s unique about the Central Valley is that voters here are not so tied to ethnic identity -- or political party -- including those who are registered Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may have stuck with their registration, but they’re not happy with the party,” says Valadao. “Especially when you look at water, you look at things where government is involved and how it’s hurt our valley. They’re finding they’re not being served well by their party, and they’re not falling for it anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Valadao was among the first to buck his Republican Party and support comprehensive immigration reform, an effort that remains stalled on Capitol Hill. He says that support helps explain his lead in the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there could still be a Latino turnout problem, says Paul Mitchell, with the bipartisan firm \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com\" target=\"_blank\">Political Data Inc.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Latino voting power is kind of like a series of Russian nesting dolls,” says Mitchell. “You have a very large Latino population, underneath that Latinos who are of eligible age and citizens, then those who are registered, and a subset who will actually vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell's data analysis suggests a gap between the 21st Congressional District's registered Latino voters and likely Latino voters of as much as 13 points this fall. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where are you originally from,\" asks Zuniga. \"L\u003cem>a familia\u003c/em>?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Woodlake. But my Dad is from Zacatecas,” she tells him, and launches into a story in Spanglish about how he worked the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You got my vote, Zacatecas,” Zuniga tells her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria, a Stanford and Harvard graduate who went on to work for a U.S. senator from Michigan, was heavily courted by the Democratic Party to come back home to the Central Valley and run for office. And on paper she should be a shoo-in because of voters like Zuniga. She’s a Latina Democrat running in a district where 55 percent of registered voters are Latino, and Democrats have an almost 18-point registration edge over Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It could be a problem year for Latinos, because there’s not a lot to get them to the polls.'\u003ccite>Gary Segura, Stanford political scientist and co-founder of Latino Decisions\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But there might not be enough voters who will actually turn up in this rural district on Election Day, which in recent elections has been the most lopsided in California when it comes to Latino voter \u003cem>registration\u003c/em> versus \u003cem>turnout.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be a problem year for Latinos, because there’s not a lot to get them to the polls,” says Gary Segura, a Stanford political scientist and co-founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.latinodecisions.com/\">Latino Decisions\u003c/a>, a polling group focused on the Latino vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things we know that drive down voting participation are youth, low income, low levels of education, low levels of information and the absence of mobilization,” says Segura. “And all of those things are likely to be true in the 21\u003csup>st\u003c/sup> of California. That’s Amanda Renteria’s challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her biggest challenge, of course, is unseating the incumbent Republican congressman, \u003ca href=\"http://valadao.house.gov/\">David Valadao,\u003c/a> a Portuguese-American dairyman with his own son-of-immigrants story. He’s willing to \u003ca href=\"http://univisionfresno.univision.com/destino/video/2014-10-10/debate-rumbo-al-congreso-fresno-distrito-21\">debate her in Spanish on Univision\u003c/a>, albeit with a lot of Portuguese mixed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did struggle with my Spanish,” Valadao admits. “The fact that I’m making an effort, willing to embarrass myself with how rough it is, I think people appreciate it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portuguese or Mexican? Republican or Democrat? Valadao says the thing that’s unique about the Central Valley is that voters here are not so tied to ethnic identity -- or political party -- including those who are registered Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may have stuck with their registration, but they’re not happy with the party,” says Valadao. “Especially when you look at water, you look at things where government is involved and how it’s hurt our valley. They’re finding they’re not being served well by their party, and they’re not falling for it anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Valadao was among the first to buck his Republican Party and support comprehensive immigration reform, an effort that remains stalled on Capitol Hill. He says that support helps explain his lead in the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there could still be a Latino turnout problem, says Paul Mitchell, with the bipartisan firm \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com\" target=\"_blank\">Political Data Inc.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Latino voting power is kind of like a series of Russian nesting dolls,” says Mitchell. “You have a very large Latino population, underneath that Latinos who are of eligible age and citizens, then those who are registered, and a subset who will actually vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell's data analysis suggests a gap between the 21st Congressional District's registered Latino voters and likely Latino voters of as much as 13 points this fall. That would be the biggest gap of any congressional district in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's one that Amanda Renteria is trying to overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up here, politics or the political system wasn’t anything I knew anything about.” says Renteria, who grew up the daughter of farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand where these communities are coming from. [They say] ‘I’m working hard, trying to make it, I don’t have time for that stuff.’ Coming from that experience gives me an opportunity to be a different kind of bridge, to be able to say that’s why it’s important for you to have a voice, be able to vote,” says Renteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria’s focus has been signing up voters as permanent absentee, setting up a bilingual hotline to help with their questions and returning again and again to urge them to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just, ‘sign me up,’ ” says Renteria. “The metrics are more than that. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[vimeo 104048048 w=640 h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As we all know by now, California is in a serious state of drought. Some parts of the state are getting hit harder than others. The Central Valley is one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We wanted to show what this long dry year has meant for one of the country’s richest farming areas. So, producer Suzie Racho and I headed down Highway 99 to meet up with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org\" target=\"_blank\">The California Report’s\u003c/a>\u003c/em> Central Valley bureau chief, Sasha Khokha, who’s based in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our first stop was a cattle auction in the Tulare County town of Visalia. Agriculture is king here. Tulare County just passed Fresno as the top farm county in the nation. There are more cows than people in this county. Dairy alone is a $2 billion industry. But add in citrus, almonds, walnuts, pistachios and cotton, and the total is nearly $8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145450\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 369px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/almonds-small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-145450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/almonds-small.jpg\" alt=\"Dominic Pitigliano walks in an almond orchard during harvest season. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"369\" height=\"208\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominic Pitigliano walks in an almond orchard during harvest season. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Almonds are particularly lucrative and Dominic Pitigliano is one of the larger growers in Tulare County. We met him in an almond orchard in Woodville. As we spoke, a large harvesting machine moved along the rows, gripping each trunk one a time and shaking it until the almonds rained down. You could easily think there was an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitigliano is 33 years old — that’s young for a Central Valley farmer. He owns about 1,000 acres of almonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a hard year with the drought and no water allocation,” he tells us. “We’ve had a lot of diseases in the trees because of the lack of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep these trees alive, growers like Pitigliano are drilling down for water -- in some cases hundreds of feet below the surface. It’s like putting a huge straw in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I mean, we can live without a TV, we can live without cellphones, but we can’t live without water.'\u003ccite>—Gladys Colunga\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a race to the bottom because everybody doesn’t wanna see the valley dry up,\" Pitligano says. “Then again you don’t want to lose everything you’ve put your heart and soul into your whole life just disappear because you sat on your hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Pitigliano and other \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/07/15/californias-drought-is-hurting-farmers-more-than-food-consumers/\" target=\"_blank\">farmers are worried sick about the drought\u003c/a>, we saw lots of orchards with acres of newly planted small trees. Pitliagno told us young almond and citrus trees use less water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So people have a wide range of tree ages,” he says. “They rip out high-using trees and plant young trees.” As for his own orchards, Pitliagno says, “I’m hedging my bets that in three years it’s going to be back to normal and I’ll be able to grow my crops again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers here are \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/06/02/drought-drives-drilling-frenzy-for-groundwater-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">drilling lots of new wells\u003c/a> to keep the farms going during the drought. All that groundwater pumping is affecting everyone -- on the farm or off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gladys Colunga lives in the Tulare County farmworker town of Monson. It’s surrounded by orchards and vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/field-reporting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/field-reporting.jpg\" alt=\"Sasha Khokha (left) and Scott Shafer (right) interview Dominic Pitigliano (center) at an almond orchard in Tulare County. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasha Khokha (left) and Scott Shafer (right) interview Dominic Pitigliano (center) at an almond orchard in Tulare County. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My husband came home one day from work, he took a perfectly good shower, and then I went to use the restroom. And when I flushed the toilet, nothing but dirt came out,” she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband works the fields and his hours were cut this summer because of the drought, so the family has less money. On top of that, their well went dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Colungas have six kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of laundry to do with no water. So they’re hauling water from neighbors and friends in barrels in the back of their pickup, and then scooping it into buckets to wash dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also trying to save enough water to run the swamp cooler that provides relief from the triple-digit heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s upsetting is that just down the road there are orchards behind us drowning in water,” Colunga says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that they need to get their crops as well, but then we’re a family, we have children and we need that water. I mean, we can live without a TV, we can live without cellphones, but we can’t live without water. We have the right to have that basic thing. It’s water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145451\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 325px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/gladys-small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-145451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/gladys-small.jpg\" alt=\"Gladys Colunga gathers water from buckets outside of her home in Monson.(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"325\" height=\"183\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladys Colunga gathers water from buckets outside her home in Monson.(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sasha and I told Tulare County Supervisor Allen Ishida about the conversation we had with Gladys Colunga. We asked what he would say to people like her who can’t afford to drill their own wells, even though they own their property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The county does not have funds to help her,” Ishida says. “It’s the individual’s responsibility to take charge of the situation they’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His point: The government can’t use public funds to help private well owners. So families like Gladys Colunga’s are pretty much out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-term solution for communities like Monson may be to hook into a nearby town’s water system. But meanwhile, groundwater levels are dropping -- fast. Tulare County is issuing a record number of permits for people who want to drill wells, and Ishida says he knows that’s having an impact on the drinking water wells for nearby residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point in time, it’s a property right that you have,” Ishida notes. “You can drill a well and take the water that you need without any regulations by us or the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishida is also a citrus farmer. We met him in one of his neighbor’s orange groves that had been abandoned due to the drought. It looked like a forest of thousands of brown dead trees with shriveled-up oranges.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"left long\">\n\u003ch3>More from the Central Valley:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/21/at-89-worlds-oldest-square-dance-caller-keeps-the-central-valley-dancing/\" target=\"_blank\">World’s Oldest Square Dance Caller Keeps Central Valley Dancing [Video]\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/communal-project-in-fresno-dakota-eco-garden\">Communal Project in Fresno Has Found a Different Way to Treat the Homeless [Video]\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/27/a-reporter-in-the-san-joaquin-valley-finds-fertile-ground-for-storytelling/\">A Reporter in the San Joaquin Valley Finds Fertile Ground for Storytelling\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I just hope someone doesn’t start a fire in here,” Ishida says. “I mean, all it takes is a match, and 40 acres are going to go up in flames.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishida’s neighbors aren’t doing well because they have no groundwater. But his own orchards are OK. He bought river water from water contractors — at 10 times the normal price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is like liquid gold in the Central Valley these days. And Ishida says he’s not sure he can afford that again next year. Still, he’s hopeful. “You need to be optimistic, no matter what business you’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just folks living here who have a lot at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to remember, this is not just the San Joaquin Valley,” Ishida warns. “This is happening throughout the state of California. We could have 100,000 wells or more go out by October throughout the state. I mean it’s everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145453\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 396px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/mike-clark.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/mike-clark.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Clark, President of the Poplar Community Services District, in front of Poplar well. (Annabelle Beecher/KQED)\" width=\"396\" height=\"223\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Clark, president of the Poplar Community Services District, in front of Poplar's main well. (Annabelle Beecher/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what worries people like Mike Clark. He runs the water system for the town of Poplar, which has a population of 2,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to do any good if all these towns dry up and we don’t have any water,” Clark says. “(Then) you’ve got nobody to work the fields, because they don’t live here anymore. So it’s kind of a double-edged blade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average income in Poplar is about $13,000 per individual, he says. “I got residents that live in Poplar, if I raise the water rate by $5, they gotta go one day without eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town’s main well is straining to pull enough water this summer. Sometimes they’ve had to turn on \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201005140850/a\" target=\"_blank\">a backup well contaminated with nitrates\u003c/a>. Residents are being warned that the water’s not safe to drink or cook with — especially for babies and pregnant women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mike Clark and others in towns like Poplar, it can seem like farmers are using as much water as they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145491\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 283px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/sasha.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145491\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/sasha.jpg\" alt=\"Allen Ishida is a third-generation citrus farmer and is a Tulare County Supervisor. He shows Scott Shafer and Sasha Khokha his neighbor's farm in Lindsay, which has let 40 acres of oranges go. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\" width=\"283\" height=\"339\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Ishida is a third-generation citrus farmer and a Tulare County supervisor. He shows Scott Shafer and Sasha Khokha his neighbor's farm in Lindsay, which has let 40 acres of oranges go. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They can waste water all they want and nobody’s sayin’ nothin’,” Clark says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought is starting to pit neighbor against neighbor — those with water and those without it. But the idea that farmers get too much of the water doesn’t sit well with growers here, including Dominic Pitigliano. He says critics aren’t seeing the whole picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did they grow the dinner they had last night?,” he asks. “They probably haven’t. Most people, they go to the store, buy everything they need for dinner that night, so they’re happy. So it’s hard for them to look at us bad when they’re taking advantage of everything we’ve given them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought is top of mind here — you hear it on talk radio, in cafes and restaurants. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As we all know by now, California is in a serious state of drought. Some parts of the state are getting hit harder than others. The Central Valley is one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We wanted to show what this long dry year has meant for one of the country’s richest farming areas. So, producer Suzie Racho and I headed down Highway 99 to meet up with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org\" target=\"_blank\">The California Report’s\u003c/a>\u003c/em> Central Valley bureau chief, Sasha Khokha, who’s based in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our first stop was a cattle auction in the Tulare County town of Visalia. Agriculture is king here. Tulare County just passed Fresno as the top farm county in the nation. There are more cows than people in this county. Dairy alone is a $2 billion industry. But add in citrus, almonds, walnuts, pistachios and cotton, and the total is nearly $8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145450\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 369px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/almonds-small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-145450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/almonds-small.jpg\" alt=\"Dominic Pitigliano walks in an almond orchard during harvest season. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"369\" height=\"208\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominic Pitigliano walks in an almond orchard during harvest season. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Almonds are particularly lucrative and Dominic Pitigliano is one of the larger growers in Tulare County. We met him in an almond orchard in Woodville. As we spoke, a large harvesting machine moved along the rows, gripping each trunk one a time and shaking it until the almonds rained down. You could easily think there was an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitigliano is 33 years old — that’s young for a Central Valley farmer. He owns about 1,000 acres of almonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a hard year with the drought and no water allocation,” he tells us. “We’ve had a lot of diseases in the trees because of the lack of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep these trees alive, growers like Pitigliano are drilling down for water -- in some cases hundreds of feet below the surface. It’s like putting a huge straw in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I mean, we can live without a TV, we can live without cellphones, but we can’t live without water.'\u003ccite>—Gladys Colunga\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a race to the bottom because everybody doesn’t wanna see the valley dry up,\" Pitligano says. “Then again you don’t want to lose everything you’ve put your heart and soul into your whole life just disappear because you sat on your hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Pitigliano and other \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/07/15/californias-drought-is-hurting-farmers-more-than-food-consumers/\" target=\"_blank\">farmers are worried sick about the drought\u003c/a>, we saw lots of orchards with acres of newly planted small trees. Pitliagno told us young almond and citrus trees use less water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So people have a wide range of tree ages,” he says. “They rip out high-using trees and plant young trees.” As for his own orchards, Pitliagno says, “I’m hedging my bets that in three years it’s going to be back to normal and I’ll be able to grow my crops again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers here are \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/06/02/drought-drives-drilling-frenzy-for-groundwater-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">drilling lots of new wells\u003c/a> to keep the farms going during the drought. All that groundwater pumping is affecting everyone -- on the farm or off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gladys Colunga lives in the Tulare County farmworker town of Monson. It’s surrounded by orchards and vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/field-reporting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/field-reporting.jpg\" alt=\"Sasha Khokha (left) and Scott Shafer (right) interview Dominic Pitigliano (center) at an almond orchard in Tulare County. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasha Khokha (left) and Scott Shafer (right) interview Dominic Pitigliano (center) at an almond orchard in Tulare County. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My husband came home one day from work, he took a perfectly good shower, and then I went to use the restroom. And when I flushed the toilet, nothing but dirt came out,” she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband works the fields and his hours were cut this summer because of the drought, so the family has less money. On top of that, their well went dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Colungas have six kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of laundry to do with no water. So they’re hauling water from neighbors and friends in barrels in the back of their pickup, and then scooping it into buckets to wash dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also trying to save enough water to run the swamp cooler that provides relief from the triple-digit heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s upsetting is that just down the road there are orchards behind us drowning in water,” Colunga says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that they need to get their crops as well, but then we’re a family, we have children and we need that water. I mean, we can live without a TV, we can live without cellphones, but we can’t live without water. We have the right to have that basic thing. It’s water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145451\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 325px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/gladys-small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-145451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/gladys-small.jpg\" alt=\"Gladys Colunga gathers water from buckets outside of her home in Monson.(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"325\" height=\"183\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladys Colunga gathers water from buckets outside her home in Monson.(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sasha and I told Tulare County Supervisor Allen Ishida about the conversation we had with Gladys Colunga. We asked what he would say to people like her who can’t afford to drill their own wells, even though they own their property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The county does not have funds to help her,” Ishida says. “It’s the individual’s responsibility to take charge of the situation they’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His point: The government can’t use public funds to help private well owners. So families like Gladys Colunga’s are pretty much out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-term solution for communities like Monson may be to hook into a nearby town’s water system. But meanwhile, groundwater levels are dropping -- fast. Tulare County is issuing a record number of permits for people who want to drill wells, and Ishida says he knows that’s having an impact on the drinking water wells for nearby residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point in time, it’s a property right that you have,” Ishida notes. “You can drill a well and take the water that you need without any regulations by us or the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishida is also a citrus farmer. We met him in one of his neighbor’s orange groves that had been abandoned due to the drought. It looked like a forest of thousands of brown dead trees with shriveled-up oranges.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"left long\">\n\u003ch3>More from the Central Valley:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/21/at-89-worlds-oldest-square-dance-caller-keeps-the-central-valley-dancing/\" target=\"_blank\">World’s Oldest Square Dance Caller Keeps Central Valley Dancing [Video]\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/communal-project-in-fresno-dakota-eco-garden\">Communal Project in Fresno Has Found a Different Way to Treat the Homeless [Video]\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/27/a-reporter-in-the-san-joaquin-valley-finds-fertile-ground-for-storytelling/\">A Reporter in the San Joaquin Valley Finds Fertile Ground for Storytelling\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I just hope someone doesn’t start a fire in here,” Ishida says. “I mean, all it takes is a match, and 40 acres are going to go up in flames.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishida’s neighbors aren’t doing well because they have no groundwater. But his own orchards are OK. He bought river water from water contractors — at 10 times the normal price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is like liquid gold in the Central Valley these days. And Ishida says he’s not sure he can afford that again next year. Still, he’s hopeful. “You need to be optimistic, no matter what business you’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just folks living here who have a lot at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to remember, this is not just the San Joaquin Valley,” Ishida warns. “This is happening throughout the state of California. We could have 100,000 wells or more go out by October throughout the state. I mean it’s everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145453\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 396px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/mike-clark.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/mike-clark.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Clark, President of the Poplar Community Services District, in front of Poplar well. (Annabelle Beecher/KQED)\" width=\"396\" height=\"223\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Clark, president of the Poplar Community Services District, in front of Poplar's main well. (Annabelle Beecher/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what worries people like Mike Clark. He runs the water system for the town of Poplar, which has a population of 2,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to do any good if all these towns dry up and we don’t have any water,” Clark says. “(Then) you’ve got nobody to work the fields, because they don’t live here anymore. So it’s kind of a double-edged blade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average income in Poplar is about $13,000 per individual, he says. “I got residents that live in Poplar, if I raise the water rate by $5, they gotta go one day without eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town’s main well is straining to pull enough water this summer. Sometimes they’ve had to turn on \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201005140850/a\" target=\"_blank\">a backup well contaminated with nitrates\u003c/a>. Residents are being warned that the water’s not safe to drink or cook with — especially for babies and pregnant women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mike Clark and others in towns like Poplar, it can seem like farmers are using as much water as they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145491\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 283px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/sasha.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145491\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/sasha.jpg\" alt=\"Allen Ishida is a third-generation citrus farmer and is a Tulare County Supervisor. He shows Scott Shafer and Sasha Khokha his neighbor's farm in Lindsay, which has let 40 acres of oranges go. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\" width=\"283\" height=\"339\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Ishida is a third-generation citrus farmer and a Tulare County supervisor. 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(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farmers who lack water in California are facing a tough summer ahead, but for those who do have water, it can be a windfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is hitting record prices on the open market, prompting some farmers to pump groundwater and sell it — what some call “groundwater mining.” With groundwater already at record-low levels in parts of the state, concerns are rising that these water sales, known as water transfers, may put pressure on California’s overtaxed aquifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other water deals, farmers are selling the water they get from reservoirs or rivers and are using groundwater instead to irrigate their fields, known as “groundwater substitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 60 billion gallons of groundwater are being proposed in water sales this year — either sold for profit or substituted for water sold for profit, according to a KQED analysis of documents filed with state and federal agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drawing the Battle Lines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Anthea Hansen took the podium at a crowded Merced County Board of Supervisors meeting, knowing she was facing a tough crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry to bring this issue to your board and cause such a ruckus,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We’re in crisis mode. I have trees I need to keep alive.’\u003ccite>— Anthea Hansen, Del Puerto Water District\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hansen is the general manger of the Del Puerto Water District, which serves about 45,000 acres of farmland on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, an hour south of Stockton. But here she was, 50 miles away in Merced, telling the board why she needs to buy groundwater to save her district’s crops and orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in crisis mode,” she said. “I have trees I need to keep alive. We don’t need large quantities of water to do that. If that doesn’t happen, the trees are gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many water districts with the lowest-priority rights, “junior” water rights, Del Puerto’s normal water supply has dried up this year. Water levels in the federal reservoir system, known as the Central Valley Project, are too low to meet demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Hansen worked out a deal with two ranchers in Merced County. They would pump up to seven billion gallons of their groundwater, put it into canals, and sell it to Hansen’s farmers over two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is common practice,” Steve Sloan told the Merced Board of Supervisors at the same meeting. He’s one of the ranchers who stands to make millions from the deal. Under California’s system of water rights, he owns the groundwater under his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Water exchanges, water transfers have been done for over 30 years,” Sloan said. “This is how we survive collectively as an ag industry in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18545\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/RS8927_Drought_JoshC-4395-sfi.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18545\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/RS8927_Drought_JoshC-4395-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"An unplanted field outside of Los Banos, California. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unplanted field outside of Los Banos, California. 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In a preliminary report, the agency found there would be no significant environmental impact, though groundwater levels could be drawn down. While Merced County supervisors are also looking into the water transfer, they have little influence over the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Sales as Lifeline\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water transfer market is the only way we’re surviving right now,” said Lon Martin, assistant general manager of the San Luis Water District, another Central Valley district that has a zero water allocation this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Water underground should not be sold for monetary gain.’\u003ccite>— Billy Grissom, Farmer and Rancher\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Martin is walking among hundreds of uprooted almond trees near Los Banos; the orchard was ripped out because of the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope that we don’t see any more of this,” he said. “Depending on the ability of the water district to bring water supplies — if we’re not successful with that, we may see more orchards taken offline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin says in a dry year like this one, there are fewer water transfers than usual, but one of the few large deals going through may help the trees in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine water districts north of Sacramento are planning to sell 26 billion gallons of water, about as much as San Francisco uses in a year. Farmers would fallow crops or would pump and use groundwater instead, freeing up their water in rivers and making it available for buyers down south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten water districts in the San Joaquin Valley would purchase the water, which is about half as much water as they’d tried to arrange to purchase in the transfer earlier this year. The deal is expected to cost $72 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are literally people with no water on their account, so this represents the only lifeline they have this year,” said Ara Azhderian, water policy administrator with the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority, which negotiated the water transfer for the San Joaquin Valley water districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Legal Challenge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has neglected its groundwater,” says Barbara Vlamis, director of AquAlliance, a non-profit focused on the Sacramento watershed. 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Nineteen feet in Butte County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vlamis says the problem is that groundwater isn’t regulated in California, so state and federal agencies don’t have a full picture of the impact transfers can have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s shoddy,” she said. “The agencies that are so casual about moving water out of here need to truly analyze what they’re doing to this region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenge has raised anxiety levels for districts that were counting on purchasing the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge cloud of uncertainty,” Azhderian said. “You’ve got growers that not only have their livelihoods and farms at risk, but they have then dipped into stressed financial resources to make this transfer happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rise of California’s Water Market\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Water transfers are a way of making water available to people that don’t have old, senior water rights,” said Ellen Hanak, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water transfers in California first emerged during the 1976-77 drought. “The idea was to stretch the available supplies and do the least economic harm,” Hanak said. “It made sense to allow the market signals to work and allow people to lease that water to folks that were able to pay more for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”3b073d41504f8b383e6897c6f4cbe645″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water transfers have since become commonplace. 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If that doesn’t happen, the trees are gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many water districts with the lowest-priority rights, “junior” water rights, Del Puerto’s normal water supply has dried up this year. Water levels in the federal reservoir system, known as the Central Valley Project, are too low to meet demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Hansen worked out a deal with two ranchers in Merced County. They would pump up to seven billion gallons of their groundwater, put it into canals, and sell it to Hansen’s farmers over two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is common practice,” Steve Sloan told the Merced Board of Supervisors at the same meeting. He’s one of the ranchers who stands to make millions from the deal. Under California’s system of water rights, he owns the groundwater under his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Water exchanges, water transfers have been done for over 30 years,” Sloan said. “This is how we survive collectively as an ag industry in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18545\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/RS8927_Drought_JoshC-4395-sfi.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18545\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/RS8927_Drought_JoshC-4395-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"An unplanted field outside of Los Banos, California. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unplanted field outside of Los Banos, California. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of Sloan’s neighbors don’t see it that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m within about a five-mile radius of where they’re going be doing the pumping. So, obviously I’m concerned,” Mike Gallo told the board. Gallo runs a farming operation near Sloan’s. “What’s gonna happen when you take this much water out of an aquifer? We’re on the same aquifer. I don’t know what it’s going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billy Grissom, a farmer and cattle rancher who owns property near Sloan’s, also objected to the water sale. “Water underground should not be sold for monetary gain,” Grissom said. “When the water is gone, all the farming is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing extensive monitoring,” Sloan responded. “We don’t want to damage the aquifer. We don’t want to damage our neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bureau of Reclamation is reviewing the water transfer because the water would move through federal infrastructure. In a preliminary report, the agency found there would be no significant environmental impact, though groundwater levels could be drawn down. While Merced County supervisors are also looking into the water transfer, they have little influence over the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Sales as Lifeline\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water transfer market is the only way we’re surviving right now,” said Lon Martin, assistant general manager of the San Luis Water District, another Central Valley district that has a zero water allocation this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Water underground should not be sold for monetary gain.’\u003ccite>— Billy Grissom, Farmer and Rancher\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Martin is walking among hundreds of uprooted almond trees near Los Banos; the orchard was ripped out because of the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope that we don’t see any more of this,” he said. “Depending on the ability of the water district to bring water supplies — if we’re not successful with that, we may see more orchards taken offline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin says in a dry year like this one, there are fewer water transfers than usual, but one of the few large deals going through may help the trees in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine water districts north of Sacramento are planning to sell 26 billion gallons of water, about as much as San Francisco uses in a year. Farmers would fallow crops or would pump and use groundwater instead, freeing up their water in rivers and making it available for buyers down south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten water districts in the San Joaquin Valley would purchase the water, which is about half as much water as they’d tried to arrange to purchase in the transfer earlier this year. The deal is expected to cost $72 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are literally people with no water on their account, so this represents the only lifeline they have this year,” said Ara Azhderian, water policy administrator with the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority, which negotiated the water transfer for the San Joaquin Valley water districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Legal Challenge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has neglected its groundwater,” says Barbara Vlamis, director of AquAlliance, a non-profit focused on the Sacramento watershed. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS8937_Drought_JoshC-4304-lpr-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132091\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS8937_Drought_JoshC-4304-lpr-1-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"A dry stretch of the San Joaquin River near Los Banos. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dry stretch of the San Joaquin River near Los Banos. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two California waterways — one a major Central Valley river, the other a Peninsula creek, and both the subject of controversy — are featured on \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanrivers.org/endangered-rivers/2014-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an annual list of the most endangered U.S. rivers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American Rivers, a conservation group dedicated to preserving and restoring wild streams across the country, named \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanrivers.org/endangered-rivers/2014-report/san-joaquin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the San Joaquin River the nation’s No. 1 most endangered waterway\u003c/a>. San Francisquito Creek, a stream that runs from the Peninsula hills down through the campus of Stanford University into San Francisco Bay, is \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanrivers.org/endangered-rivers/2014-report/san-francisquito-creek/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No. 5 on the American Rivers list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling the San Joaquin “endangered” is a bit of an understatement. Long stretches of the river have run dry since Friant Dam, northeast of Fresno, was completed in the late 1940s. The river is heavily tapped for the San Joaquin Valley’s farms and growing cities. And it’s the subject of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/03/brown-blasts-gop-drought-bill-as-divisive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an ongoing congressional battle\u003c/a> over a court-approved plan to restore flows to the river \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/california-drought-one-more-setback-for-river-that-runs-dry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to allow re-establishment of chinook salmon runs\u003c/a> wiped out when the river was dammed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American Rivers points out that the state of the San Joaquin is actually a Bay Area story. That’s because 2.5 million people in San Francisco, the Peninsula and southern Alameda County get water from the Tuolumne River, one of the San Joaquin’s big tributaries. (Through its Hetch Hetchy system, San Francisco also uses the Tuolumne to generate its municipal power supply.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the group’s summary of the threats the river faces:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Years of managing the San Joaquin for agriculture, hydropower, and flood control have taken their toll on the river. Dams, levees, and excessive water diversions have hurt river habitat and opportunities for recreation and community access. Over one hundred miles of the mainstem river have been dry for over fifty years, and water diversions along the tributaries take more than 70 percent of the natural flow. The river’s salmon and steelhead populations are on the brink of extinction. Excessive diversions, groundwater overdraft, and unsustainable water management have also made communities vulnerable to increasingly frequent and severe droughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The present drought places additional stress on the river and its communities, but we must not allow the drought to force rash decisions — like cutting environmental protections — that will harm the river, fish and wildlife, and communities for years to come.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In naming San Francisquito Creek one of the most endangered streams in the country, American Rivers is drawing attention to a long-running battle over Stanford University’s Searsville Dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, environmental groups \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201301300850/c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed suit over the dam\u003c/a>, which impounds a San Francisquito tributary called Corte Madera Creek, saying it impairs habitat for endangered steelhead trout. Conservation groups, including American Rivers, have banded together in a coalition called \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondsearsvilledam.org/Beyond_Searsville_Dam/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond Searsville Dam\u003c/a> to push for removal of the 65-foot-high, 1890s-era structure and restoration of steelhead spawning habitat. They argue that because the reservoir behind the dam is nearly completely silted in, the facility has outlived its usefulness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford, which uses the reservoir for nonpotable uses like landscape watering and fire protection, \u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/searsville/faqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has argued \u003c/a>the facility still plays a key ecological role in the university’s\u003ca href=\"http://jrbp.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve\u003c/a> and that more study is needed before any decision on the dam’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting on California land policy, planning and conservation is supported by a grant from the S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In \u003ca href=\"http://costa.house.gov/index.php/2014-press-releases/1027-costa-cooperation-only-way-to-bring-valley-more-water\" target=\"_blank\">a statement\u003c/a> Tuesday, he called for a more bipartisan approach to dealing with the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is my hope that we will hear more about common ground and solutions that will bring more water to this valley instead of rehashing the tired, partisan battles over California water,\" Costa wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several California Republicans in Congress \u003ca href=\"http://mavensnotebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/CA-Delegation-Letter-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter\u003c/a> on Tuesday to President Obama and Gov. Jerry Brown urging them to act now to get more water to the valley. Regulations aimed at protecting endangered fish allowed 445,000 acre-feet of water from February rains to be lost into the ocean, the letter said. 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