National Food Security is Threatened
The current Federal water policy places family farms at risk
Sound water policy is essential to food security
For decades, federal agencies have imposed drastic restrictions on water availability for irrigation and critical national wildlife refuges of the Pacific Flyway. Rather than addressing the problems of the entire ecosystem, they have hidden behind the Endangered Species Act and single-species management.
This has had severe impacts on the fragile economy, working families, rural communities, and the Pacific Flyway, unbalancing the entire ecosystem without producing any identifiable benefit for fish populations.
Yet the pattern continues.
Dead in the Water
It was the night before Thanksgiving. You go to the grocery store to buy the fixings for a big dinner. But something is different. Shelves are empty. For the available food, prices are incredibly high. What's going on?
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Water Security is National Security
The Klamath Basin contains some of the most productive farmland in the world. Yet farms and ranches are deprived of irrigation water essential to sustaining this production. When the water dries up, crops are gone forcing our nation to find food elsewhere.
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American Farmers Need Your Help
Out of the limelight, federal water management policies are drying up farms and ranches across the West. Onerous single-species regulations focus on failing entire ecosystems. It doesn’t have to be this way.