Idaho Press-Tribune
US Water News
BOISE, Idaho -- The state's top water official has given hundreds of farmers, dairymen and other groundwater users in southern Idaho until July 6 to quit pumping or satisfy the demands of two trout farms that say they've been forced to slash fish production because they aren't getting water they're legally due.
The order from Dave Tuthill, state Department of Water Resources director, covers 591 water rights over 16,638 acres, fewer than the 771 water rights on 33,000 acres discussed when Tuthill announced a proposed curtailment in April.
Lynn Tominaga, director of the Idaho Ground Water Appropriators:["...The problem that you run into is the lending institutions," he told The Associated Press. "If a bank knows that you don't have the water to finish out your crop and harvest, are you going to get a loan to farm?"
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