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Discussions start early on Eastern Snake water pact
4+ hour, 26+ min ago (303+ words) Published 11:30 am Friday, August 21, 2026 Parties to a settlement between water user groups in Idaho’s Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer region are getting a head start on figuring out what is next even though the pact lasts well into the 2027 irrigation season....
Idaho approves Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer recharge projects
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (350+ words) Published 9:00 am Tuesday, August 18, 2026 Idaho approves Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer recharge projects The Idaho Water Resource Board has funded two projects designed to increase capacity to recharge the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer. The board at a meeting in Rexburg Aug....
Idaho water board awards flood management grants
1+ week, 2+ day ago (365+ words) Published 1:30 pm Wednesday, August 12, 2026 The Idaho Water Resource Board at its regular bimonthly meeting Aug. 7 in Rexburg approved 13 flood management grants for a total of $1.14 million combined. State flood management grant proceeds help recipients pay for projects designed to repair…...
Purpose of WA Ecology's water meetings leave irrigators baffled
1+ week, 3+ day ago (482+ words) Published 8:30 am Tuesday, August 11, 2026 The Washington Department of Ecology has held a series of meetings this summer on the state’s future use of water and plans to publish a report in the fall on what it heard. Gov. Bob Ferguson…...
Yakima junior irrigators get more water, worrying senior right holders
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (459+ words) Published 7:00 am Friday, August 7, 2026 The Bureau of Reclamation has allotted more water to Yakima Valley irrigators with junior water rights, raising concerns that farmers with senior water rights will again run short in October. The bureau projected Aug. 6 that junior…...
Newly enrolled Idaho CREP acres surge on water concerns
3+ week, 7+ hour ago (525+ words) Published 8:00 am Friday, July 31, 2026 Southern Idaho farm acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program will be substantially higher in the 2027 crop year, largely due to water supply concerns. CREP, which started in 2006, is a partnership between the state and…...
Idaho water curtailment order ups expected shortfall
4+ week, 5+ hour ago (506+ words) Published 11:00 am Friday, July 24, 2026 An updated Idaho curtailment order increases the volume Eastern Snake Plain groundwater pumpers owe a coalition of surface water users with senior rights. Unusually low snowpack, mostly warm and dry conditions and expected below-average streamflows that…...
Idaho scraps potential Swan Falls curtailment, seeks long-term plan
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (515+ words) Published 7:00 am Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Idaho officials have scrapped an idea to potentially curtail trust water rights, which they had said was necessary so the state could stay in compliance with the Swan Falls settlement amid reduced Snake River flows. But,…...
Magic Reservoir irrigation delivery ends
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (517+ words) Published 1:15 pm Monday, July 6, 2026 Big Wood Canal Co. ended irrigation deliveries from Magic Reservoir July 5 and into the early morning of July 6, more than two months earlier than last year. “We’re actually pleasantly surprised in that we thought the end…...
Good news for Yakima basin irrigators — it's not getting worse
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (355+ words) Published 8:30 am Friday, June 5, 2026 The Bureau of Reclamation reaffirmed that Yakima River basin farmers with junior water-rights can expect 52% of their full allotments, a percentage that has held steady since April. The no-change prediction presented June 4 contrasts with last year....