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Just north of the California ... farmlands of the Imperial Valley. It’s more water than what Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas get combined, and it’s used to grow lettuce, broccoli, carrots ...
"There's just not enough water to grow everything that we normally ... but did not rule out price increases. In southern California, Imperial Valley farmers are planting hundreds of acres of ...
California's Imperial Valley consistently ... their hands. But the valley's traditions and competing interests have to be balanced, too. Keenly sensitive to growing complaints from farmers about ...
has a considerably lesser agricultural presence than the lush green regions of Imperial Valley, California, or Yuma, Arizona. Much of the agriculture that does happen in rural Nevada is largely ...
Of that total, the Imperial Valley’s farms gets 3.1 million acre-feet annually—more than half of California’s total allotment and more than any other state draws from the river besides Colorado.
So why is America's most valuable farming state using billions of gallons of water to grow ... the lush Imperial Valley, which gets water through a canal from the Colorado river California is ...