December 28, 2004
Free Market Miracle #0013
A handful of large farms get most of the water and subsidy dollars delivered by the country's biggest federal water supply project, according to a study by a national environmental organization.
The Central Valley Project, authorized in 1936 to support family farms, now funnels up to $416 million of subsidized water to agricultural giants in California's Central Valley, according to a study released earlier this month by the Environmental Working Group.
Specifically, the report indicated that the top 10 percent of agricultural water users were getting 67 percent of the water.
Posted by Eddie Tews at December 28, 2004 05:09 PM
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