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Unprecedented Water War In San Joaquin

Posted by: Laura Kraft
Thanks to: Laura Krafft
20 August 2000 - 10:30am

Westlands deal cites untested 57-year-old statutes to seek a third of San Joaquin's flow.

A new Mason-Dixon line runs down the middle of the San Joaquin Valley where a historic civil war erupted this month between east and west agricultural titans over water for crops worth more than $4 billion annually. It's unprecedented warfare for the San Joaquin River, and the loser could wind up with large chunks of farmland supporting tumbleweeds instead of cotton or grapes.

Full Story: Water case hinges on 2 obscure laws
Source: The Fresno Bee, August 20, 2000
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