{"id":1754179,"date":"2022-11-28T17:22:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754179"},"modified":"2022-11-28T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:22:22","slug":"2022-was-devastating-californias-water-crisis-and-its-impact-on-americas-food-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2022-was-devastating-californias-water-crisis-and-its-impact-on-americas-food-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20182022 Was Devastating\u2019: California\u2019s Water Crisis And Its Impact On America\u2019s Food Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F2022-was-devastating-californias-water-crisis-and-its-impact-on-americas-food-supply%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754179&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lack of water<\/a> availability for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/farming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agriculture<\/a> has created a crisis that could continue for years to come and lead to a food supply shortage across the United States. The lack of water not only impacts the communities and environment of California, but has national security and global market implications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bob Amarel grows prunes in Yuba City, California, and is also on the Farm Credit West board. Amarel is based in California so he noted that many of his perceptions come from what has happened there. He discussed the sheer quantity of food that is grown in the agricultural region of the state, and the problems that come with cutting water to those regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cFirst of all, you\u2019ll see less food,\u201d he said, and he wouldn\u2019t be surprised if there were international suppliers providing food to Americans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cYou\u2019re going to start seeing the shelves being filled with made in China, or grown in China, grown in Mexico, more so than you are today,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re going to end up getting crop produce, but it\u2019s not going to be anywhere close to the quality and safety that we produce as U.S. producers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ryan Jacobsen is the CEO of the Fresno County Farm Bureau and is the descendant of two farm families going back generations. He is also on the Fresno Irrigation District Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jacobsen noted that farmers haven\u2019t felt the inflationary rise in prices as much as some consumers, but looking to the future, he said people will experience a shortage of many materials from California, which could lead to price hikes on some of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">David Guy, the executive director of the Northern California Water Association, said that Costco is concerned about where it will source its food since it tries to use local products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe\u2019re hearing from them that they\u2019re just really nervous about where their food is going to come from,\u201d he said, adding that this includes fruits, nuts, and meat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201c2022 was devastating. It just was devastating. It was devastating for everybody,\u201d he said, adding that 600 square miles of Sacramento Valley land was fallowed, or left unplanted, this year. \u201cJust brown dry, nothing grown there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He said they need the regulatory environment to let water be used to grow products on the land. \u201cIf they don\u2019t, we\u2019re just going to all suffer again like we did this year. It was devastating this year in the Sacramento Valley, on the west side of the Sacramento Valley \u2026 we just didn\u2019t grow anything hardly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Relationships between growers and international markets are also at risk. Guy pointed out that when a grower doesn\u2019t have items to provide, buyers will look to get their products elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The potential food supply crisis is also a national security and food safety concern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">JB Hamby is on the Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors and he made the point that \u201cthere is no more basic need that Americans need than food,\u201d thus moving food supplies to international sources \u201cputs us in a very vulnerable position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe need to ensure that Americans are fed by food produced in America. And the more we continue to offshore and outsource our food supply puts us in an increasingly vulnerable and weak position if we want to maintain full reliability of food in our grocery stores,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Around two-thirds of the water that goes into California from the Colorado River is pushed towards agriculture, with the Imperial Irrigation District in Imperial County using a massive amount of it, CalMatters <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/commentary\/2022\/11\/feds-demand-colorado-river-water-cutbacks\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hamby said many major farming areas that grow winter produce for the United States get almost all of their water from the Colorado River, but if Americans want to have full availability of products at the grocery stores, there needs to be irrigation to those crops, specifically during that season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhat we\u2019re facing right now is a significant situation on the Colorado River, where there\u2019s more demands on the system than there is water flowing in the Colorado River,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He said Americans should start to look at where their broccoli or romaine lettuce comes from when they go to the grocery stores during the late fall and coming seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMost likely, over the next few months, almost all of that is going to be grown with Colorado River water. And so if we want to continue to have grocery store shelves that we can depend on to give us the food that we need, we need to ensure that we have water flowing to farms, particularly on the Colorado River,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He said the short-term solution will be \u201csome painful reductions across the board, across all sectors. \u2026 There\u2019s going to need to be a collective effort and collective action on the part of all users across the Colorado River basin to reduce consumption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHowever, in the long term, that\u2019s not really a viable solution, and we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lack of water availability for California agriculture has created a crisis that could continue for years to come and lead to a food supply shortage across the United States. The lack of water not only impacts the communities and environment of California, but has national security and global market implications. 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