California Farm Water Coalition

Californians face dwindling supplies of locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables and higher prices at the grocery store unless our elected leaders act NOW to fix our water supply system. Click HERE to find your legislator and tell them we need new reservoirs and canals for California’s future.

Governor Schwarzenegger held a press conference with Latino leaders on August 18 to tell legislators he wants a comprehensive water supply package of legislative bills to fix the state’s

water supply system. View highlights in the video at right.

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Irony?

Chinese carrots being distributed to unemployed farmworkers at a food line in California's Central Valley where they once worked to produce food for the world.

Farm Water Critics Are At It Again

Farm water critics Dan Bacher and Lloyd Carter regularly denounce the governor, the legislature and most of the environmental community for doing too much to try to fix our broken water system. They have variously claimed in the past that there is no drought in California, that the loss of tens of thousands of farm jobs this past year has had no impact on employment, and that the absence of water deliveries to the Central Valley and Southern California is not affected by regulations that prevent those deliveries from being made.