Farmers’ bottom lines are especially vulnerable.
About half the crops grown in the Rio Grande Valley are irrigated – meaning that farmers use water rerouted from the Rio Grande to cultivate their crops.
Then there’s other crops such as cotton, corn and sorghum, that they can produce both dryland and irrigated. But if they don’t have irrigation water, then yields get chopped by half. So it’s a big impact. Basically you take producers the opportunity to make the most out of their crop.Right. Especially in the Valley right now, they’re deciding what to plant. So it’s already kind of late, and right now there’s no water there.
So the total economic impact, when you add them up, it’s about $994 million. And then the other side of that is that it also supports a lot of jobs. So you could lose about 8,400 full-time jobs. One issue, though, in the Valley, which I think is different from other places, is that this is surface water. So, it needs distributed through canals. Well, the canals need water so they can get from point A to point B, and usually it’s, basically city water rides on agricultural water. So the water that you have in the canal is usually agricultural water. So the city needs to get it from the river all the way to the city is going to right on top of it.
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