… put in recharge basins, or we may want to have an equip program for a large grower to use micro irrigation drip or small sprinklers instead of flood irrigation. Or We might want to have a program where a large grower can put in the capital infrastructure needed to access surface water to a farm that has previously only been irrigated with groundwater. So that when we have surface water years like we did this year in California, when there's abundant surface water, these large growers can access that surface water, recharge it, use it on their crops, and protect the groundwater for all farmers for drier times. (04:23–04:35)
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Asserts that there might be a program to help large growers access surface water for farms previously irrigated with groundwater.
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