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<h1><span style='color:black'>Farmers told how to save huge amounts of water<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=byline><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'><a
href="mailto:kzito@sfchronicle.com">Kelly Zito, Chronicle Staff Writer</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=date><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'>Wednesday, July 22,
2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>California farmers could save
enough water each year to fill Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy reservoir 16 times by
using more efficient irrigation techniques, according to a study that is bound
to be highly controversial among the state's powerful agriculture interests.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='color:#015660;text-decoration:none'>S.F. garden isn't dead - just in
transition</span></a> 07.22.09<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The report, released today by
the <u>Pacific Institute</u>, an Oakland water policy group, also recommends
that the state rethink its historic water rights system and boost water prices.
Both measures, in theory, would spur agricultural users to use less water at a
time when climate change, urban growth and ecological restoration are expected
to further cramp water supplies.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>"If we want to have a
healthy agriculture economy, the only real option is to figure out how to
produce more food with less water," said <u>Peter Gleick</u>, president of
the Pacific Institute and co-author of "Sustaining California Agriculture
in an Uncertain Future."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Farmers agree water supplies
are stretched, but they disagree on the cause. During recent "fish vs.
farm" rallies in the Central Valley, protesters decried environmental
rules that have cut water exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
to protect endangered fish species.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>What's more, farmers say, they
are doing their part. For instance, California growers in 2000 produced double
the volume of crops in 1967 with only 2 percent more water, according to Mike
Wade, executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Further, sweeping changes to
water prices or supplies would simply hammer an industry reeling from a
three-year drought, he added.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>"You can't just wave a
magic wand," Wade said. "There are consequences. It affects things
like ... what consumers can put their hands on at the grocery store."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>But maintaining the status quo
isn't an option, Gleick argues.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>"California agriculture
is in trouble," Gleick said. "If we continue doing the things the way
we've always done them ... there's not going to be enough water - that's
indisputable."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>California's produce growers,
cattle ranchers, and rice farmers use about 34 million acre-feet of water each
year (one acre-foot equals about 326,000 gallons), compared with 8 million
acre-feet used in cities, according to Gleick.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>In a 2003 study, Gleick found
cities could save 2.3 million acre-feet - nearly 30 percent, compared with the
16 percent prescription for agriculture (the report said farms could save 4.5
million to 6 million acre-feet a year).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Gleick's recommendations for
the agriculture sector range from relatively simple to positively thorny. In
addition to increasing drip rather than "flood" irrigation, Gleick
proposed re-examining state water rights and renegotiating higher prices for
long-term federal water contracts as ways to promote conservation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The report also called for
better monitoring of water supplies.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>"There are a lot of
districts that have no idea how much water they use," said David Sunding,
co-director of the Berkeley Water Center. "That needs to change. We're
past that point in California."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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