Monday, June 10, 2013

Groups along Klamath River invoke their water rights

Tribes and irrigators with senior rights formally call for water, meaning some southern Oregon ranchers must use less this summer.



Some southern Oregon ranchers will have to reduce or completely shut down irrigation in the parched Upper Klamath Basin this summer as a result of a historic assertion of water rights by other users in the region.



via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/c3X2ACuo49w/la-me-klamath-call-20130611,0,2699611.story

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