Water For Farmers To Be Shut Off To Save Fish

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan

8 April 2001 - 10:00am

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will be shutting off irrigation water to hundreds of farmers to save endangered fish threatened by drought.

"The government is cutting off irrigation water to hundreds of farmers in a basin along the Oregon-California border to help threatened and endangered fish survive a drought.The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced Friday that 90 percent of farmers drawing water from the Klamath Project would be left dry this year to maintain water for endangered sucker fish and sustain water flows for threatened coho salmon."

Full Story: Water will be shut off to farmers to keep endangered fish alive

Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, April 7, 2001