Snake River Plain

The final July curtailment order for Snake River water rights has been issued. Idaho Department of Water Resources has ordered junior groundwater users to join a mitigation plan or face curtailment.

Thanks to the dry, hot weather, several wildfires are burning across the west, and in the Northwest. Currently there are about fires across the three states.

The Idaho Department of Water Resources has identified a shortfall in available water supply, potentially impacting thousands of groundwater users.

There are several on-farm issues the Snake River Sugarbeet Growers Association is working on this legislative session in Boise.  And for Executive Director Samantha Parrott, no issue is bigger than water.   She said there were several challenges last year in the eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer, which put hundreds of thousands of acres of water in jeopardy.  While an agr...

Idaho lawmakers are considering reforms to the state’s domestic use exemption in Idaho water law.  The Idaho Farm Bureau Federation’s Braden Jensen said Senate Bill 1083A, was developed by a water user workgroup, of which IFBF was a part.   “Curren...