1. Dennis K, Carman, P.E. USDA NRCS National Water Management Center
Water Management National Grain Trade Council New Orleans, LA September 24, 2004
Dennis K, Carman, P.E.
USDA NRCS
National Water Management Center

2. Water Impacts on Your Industry
Is the water supply sufficient to maintain our current activities?
What if there is growth?
What are potential issues on the horizon for water rights?
How will irrigation practices be impacted?
Will water transportation continue to be a dependable form of transportation for agriculture commodities?
How is US water situation over the next years affected by the practices in Canada/Mexico and vice-versa?

3. Water Resources 101 Let’s look at: Rainfall and population
Where we use water
For what purposes
What are the issues (where do we have conflict?)
Grain – Where is it produced
We will also take a quick “global water look” as some of the same relationships

5. Rainfall Distribution

7. People locate where there is water
Impacts the demand
Competition for water
Industrial
Agriculture
Environmental

8. Trends in U.S. Water Use

9. Water Resource Issues Are we running out of water? No …..however
Your view depends on
Where you are located
What are your interests
What is your purpose
When you ask the question

10. Globally our water balance is static
We have no more or no less water today than during the dinosaur age

11. We do have significant regional and local issues

12. Let’s look a little closer at your portion of the agriculture business
Irrigated acres
Where there are significant water quantity “issues”
What changes are taking place
How does this impact your business?

15. Regional Issue: California Imperial Valley Irrigation District (IID) and San Diego County Water Authority Water Transfer Agreement
How will the water transfer agreement between IID and San Diego work? IID would conserve water through on-farm or system projects and then transfer that conserved water to the San Diego County Water Authority. Under California State law, IID may conserve and transfer water without the losing their present perfected water rights. How much water does this transfer involve? Twenty thousand acre-feet of conserved water would be transferred in the first year of the contract. Deliveries would then increase in 20,000 acre-foot increments until a maximum of 200,000 acre-feet is reached in year ten of the contract.