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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150407:13:44:00

"the washington post" has been following that development in the water crisis and joins me now. you have been doing terrific reporting on this. you point out that the executive orders don't apply to farms, which use 80% of the water, but make up 2% of california's economy. is this something that should be looked at as well? >> i think it will be. jerry brown hinted over the weekend that it looks like agriculture may be asked to do something to curb its water usage. the crisis is hurting a lot of the agricultural economy in california. >> what can they do? >> here's the thing, the federal government has jurisdiction over surface water throughout the u.s., so that includes the colorado river, which gives water to about seven states in the west. however, the bureau of land

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150407:02:59:00

about 75% or more of our statewide water supply is coming from ground water. that's what's really fueled agriculture and that is what is at risk right now. and it's largely unprotected at this point in time. >> and agriculture uses 80% of the water. so even if everyone does cut back on how long they're in the shower or how often they wash their car, that really can't have much of an effect when 80% of it is being consumed by farms. >> i think it's important for all of us in california to work together to try to save water. at this point, because the way that water is moved around in california many of us are actually disconnected from the larger transfers of water. so it is important. so many towns are relatively isolated. for example the town i live in has only four wells. that's all the water we have. so even though it's a small place, there's not much agriculture going on at all. we still have to conserve water locally. >> i have some of the biggest

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150407:05:58:00

>> and a drought is only a situation in which you don't have as much water as you need. >> that's right. >> and california needs this extraordinary amount of water because we've converted this area into not just residential spots but agriculture. don't we have agriculture that is essentially desert? >> we do. and it's the groundwater that has enabled that. and the ground water most at risk in the drought. we have no snow? the mountains. we have very little water in our reservoirs, so we are relying about 75% or more of our statewide water supply is coming from ground water. that's what's really fueled agriculture and that is what is at risk right now. and it's largely unprotected at this point in time. >> and agriculture uses 80% of the water. so even if everyone does cut back on how long they're in the shower or how often they wash their car, that really can't

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20150406:20:32:00

changes in behavior from the organization border all the way to the mexican border. it affects lawns, it affects people's -- how long they stay in the shower. how businesses use water. >> reporter: the governor is under fire from urban users who say agriculture is getting off scot-free. pumping groundwater on crops for export like almonds which use a gallon of water per almond. brown says farmers faced cutbacks last year and will get zero federal water this year. plus a long shower doesn't support jobs or feed a family. it takes 12 gallons of water to produce a single ounce of beef. what brown fears is lose the entire central valley economy to the drought and he doesn't want that to happen. >> thank you very much. $500 fines for taking longer showers. judge andrew napolitano says that is a slippery slope. i guess the pun was intended. >> there's a couple of issues here. one, i think you agree with me, whenever the government regulates or rations anything

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20150406:17:47:00

can be a reality as long as there are no unexpected problems. if refineries operate smoothly. >> and take you to the state where the car is king. jerry brown. mandatory water restrictions in the face of a long drought. william? >> he's on defense for several reasons that the cut back didn't go far enough. it doesn't band watering the line or applies to agriculture. agriculture consuming 80 percent of the surface water and only two percent of the state's economy. some say the farmers are getting off scot-free. the governor said 5000 acre are

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20150406:14:24:00

cities say agriculture is getting off easy. experts say the restrictions don't go far enough. a little good news a storm arrived in the sierras with snow and foot on the way. that is important because the state gets 30%. i its water from snow pack which is 95% below average. san francisco, rain in central valley through los angeles. it is needed but not enough to change the big picture. sunday governor brown said his 25% mandatory water cut will force residents to change how they live. >> it is requiring action and changes in behavior from the oregon border all the way to the mexican border. it affects lawns, it affects people how long they stay in the shower, how business use water. >> reporter: doesn't mean that police will put you in cuffs for a 10 minute shower. local water districts will enforce the 25% with a tiered rate structure, forcing consumers to pay a lot more if

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20150406:15:27:00

deep. they are choosing the wrong crops that take a lot of water. like almonds'. what do you say you shouldn't be drilling so much or drilling so deep. >> drilling is part of agriculture. the reason we are seeing increased. you'ving is because of the drought. when you see snow pack levels we are seeing them at 5% of normal. when the surface water supply is diminished as we have been seeing in the last couple years of drought the dependence on water supplies increased. as we have seen the declined in supplies we have seen agriculture continue dependence on subsurface pumping.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20150404:22:46:00

around and seen that they've got friends relatives colleagues who are gay. i just think the country has changed. and that change is reflected in the political process and there you got andrew cuomo as good a weather vein for the political process as anybody, turning on a dime and saying, okay. now i will go to indiana. this worked. >> but what about those who say religious beliefs need to be protected? is it your sense that they are? >> how will it weigh out in 2016? >> of course religious beliefs need to be protected. i don't think anybody was really debating that. when this act passed a lot of colleges and universities used to go out of their way frankly to make it tough for groups that women could have a group or farm workers, people interested in agriculture could have a group. but they were very tough in giving equal access to campus

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20150404:15:25:00

the end result is that water is cheap, it makes it easy to waste whether you're a resident or large farm and that's where the real problem lies. >> whenever you see government thinking they are smarter than mother nature i get concerned and usually the sideways gets worse. >> i agree with the governor that everyone has got to step up. i'm from utah we be i was a kid we had to watch our sprinkler use. but to ignore farmers is to ignore the massive jumbo sized elephant in the room. there was a report from the pacific research institute they found that farmers are 22% inefficient. that would solve their drought problem right there. >> rich, another thing is what they farm. they farm these products like the miss she owes and almonds which are very water intensive. maybe we should import them from some other place. >> rice and cotton. there is a lot of agriculture in california that's native to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150403:21:15:00

residents? why has this been under the radar screen? >> because there's two major industries in north dakota. there's agriculture and there is oil. oil isn't going to jump up and down and say rectify this law, although i never thought nascar would and they finally got on board. you take a look at agriculture. that's all individual based. that's why i mentioned microsoft. i served in the north dakota senate for 14 years. many of the people who voted yesterday are gay. there are members of north dakota that are gay and it's their right to not tell people they're gay. what's happened is astounding. >> have you seen discrimination in your lifetime in north dakota? >> you know i've seen it a number of places.

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