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Drought conditions in the US Pacific Northwest are expected to get worse this year than in the past two years, which saw diminishing reservoirs, massive wildfires, and substantial cuts to agricultural irrigation.

MALIN, Ore. (AP) — Judy and Jim Shanks know the exact date their home’s well went dry — June 24. Since then, their life has been an endless cycle of imposing on relatives for showers and laundry, hauling water to feed a small herd of cattle and desperately waiting for a local well-drilling company to make it to their name on a monthslong wait list. The couples well is among potentially hundreds that have dried up in recent weeks in an area near the Oregon-California border suffer...

increase font size Homes in West lose water as wells run dry in drought-ravaged basin Potentially hundreds of wells have dried up in recent weeks in an area near the Oregon-California border. By GILLIAN FLACCUS and NATHAN HOWARDAssociated Press Share Rylee Buckley, 17, fills a 7-gallon water container with a neighbor’s hose Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Klamath Falls, Ore. Her family’s house well ran dry in May following a historic drought in southern Oregon. Nathan Howard/Associated Pres...

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BOARDMAN — Cody Easterday is still waiting for the Oregon Department of Agriculture to approve his application, submitted in June 2019, for a Confined Animal Feeding Operation near the city of Boardman. Easterday, a 49-year-old rancher whose family owns a huge agricultural operation in Washington state, proposes to open a mega-dairy that would be the second-largest in Oregon. The Easterday Dairy would have up to 28,300 animals and use more water than most cities in the state. The future of...

SALEM — Irrigators and regulators frequently encounter the same predicament: They want to measure actual water but must instead deal with paper. Estimates of large-scale water usage needed by regulators often depend on “paper water,” or government-issued permits that describe the amount legally available for withdrawal but don’t reflect real consumption. Farmers face a similar dilemma with published studies about crop irrigation requirements that aren’t specific to thei...