California's Imperial Irrigation District is preparing to pay growers to temporarily stop watering hay crops to ease strains on the Colorado River.
Welcome to Boiling Point. I’m Ian James, a reporter on The Times’ climate team, writing the newsletter this week to fill in for my colleague Sammy Roth. Farmers who grow hay in the Imperial Valley will soon be eligible to receive cash payments in exchange for temporarily shutting off water to their fields for up to two months this year.
But Lake Mead, the country’s largest reservoir, remains just 33% full, while the second-largest reservoir, Lake Powell, is now at 42% of capacity. Throughout the Colorado River Basin, water management officials have been looking to the Imperial Irrigation District to play a pivotal role in efforts to adapt because the Imperial Valley uses more water than Arizona and Nevada combined. Last year, the district accounted for 65% of the total usage of Colorado River water in Southern California.
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