Water shortage has farmers afraid of Biden conservation funding

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The Biden administration is offering to pay Colorado River farmers to let fields go dry during a devastating drought. They're worried it's just the first step in losing their way of life.

its own with larger cuts to its Lower Basin neighbors, Arizona and Nevada, instead. That would mean more water for California, the largest water user with some of the most senior water rights.

The Upper Basin states made the program to show the federal government"we're trying to do our part to save the river, but look at California, they're not wanting to do shit," Waters said. His great-great-grandparents on his mother's side moved to the Grand Valley around 1905, and his father bought their farm when he married Waters' mother. Today, Waters and his adult son farm 600 acres of alfalfa seed, which eventually ends up feeding cattle, and winter wheat for human consumption.

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