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Water Curtailment to Harm Idahoans

The Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) ordered the single largest curtailment of water use in the state’s history, ordering eastern Idaho farmers to dry up hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland and potentially inflicting hundreds of millions of dollars in economic loss to the state.

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Idaho Water Director issues curtailment order for 6 groundwater districts, includes eastern Idaho

In the ongoing Surface Water Coalition’s conjunctive administration delivery call, Idaho Department of Water Resources Director Mathew Weaver issued a final curtailment order today, finding that six groundwater districts were deficient in complying with their existing, approved mitigation plans to address an injury volume of 74,100 acre-feet to senior water users. 

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