Jeff Merkley actually said...

The irrigation districts are responding by, one, changing their practices on the farm to get more crop with less water.

Water management is essential or we lose agriculture across a broad swath of the West.

And in the eastern part and southern part of my state we have had droughts that have gone on year-after-year.

Can we recognize that this is an incredibly powerful tool to help address the goals in the Western Water and Working Lands Framework, and ca...