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Farmers in the Klamath Basin that rely on scarce water won’t have to deal with cuts for the rest of the month, according to federal water managers. Water users had been warned last month about a potential shortfall.
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The legislation would expand California’s authority to fine water scofflaws who keep pumping. Even if fines had reached $10,000 a day, “I’m not so sure we wouldn’t have done it again,” one rancher says.
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Two of the Klamath Basin's native suckers are in big trouble. The endangered populations are declining fast. But scientists and the Klamath Tribes are looking for solutions that can bring the fish back.
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After an unprecedented shut-off of irrigation water in the Klamath Project, ag producers had to scramble to find water for their crops. While many used groundwater wells to make up at least some of the loss, the limits of that resource became clear.
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In this driest of years in the Klamath Basin, the nation’s oldest wildlife refuge for water birds is now getting this season’s first major infusion of fresh water.
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Homes in rural areas of the Klamath Basin have lost running water as their wells fail. Part of the reason: more farmers and ranchers are pumping water from underground than any other year, because they didn’t get any irrigation water from a nearby lake.
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More than 90 families in the Klamath Basin say their domestic water wells have run dry.
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In the drought-stricken Klamath Basin along the California-Oregon border, water is a precious resource. Who gets that water hinges, in large part, on two types of fish that live only there.
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Rep. Bentz talks drought.
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When Rep. Cliff Bentz visited Klamath Falls Thursday, he brought promises of government aid for farmers who won't be getting irrigation water from the federal Klamath Project this season. And he urged irrigators to resist the temptation to take matters into their own hands.
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A pair of Klamath Project irrigators and their supporters say they intend to break into federal property and open the controls that are preventing water from Upper Klamath Lake from going to farms and ranches.
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Peoples Rights Oregon, a local chapter of a group founded by Ammon Bundy, is staffing the site as a “water crisis info center.”
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Last week many Klamath irrigators got word that they’d be receiving no water from the main canal that feeds their farmlands. They’re angry, and they’re taking it out on government workers.
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Two members of Congress from Southern Oregon and Northern California are teaming up on a proposed aid package to help to assist farmers, wildlife refuges, tribes and fisherman affected by the increasing drought in the Klamath Basin on the Oregon-California border.