California to Regulate Marijuana Farming Water Use
With California voters poised to pass a referendum legalizing recreational marijuana use in November, the farmers supplying 758,607 residents holding medical marijuana prescriptions will now be subject to the state’s stringent agricultural water use laws.
No one knows just how big the unregulated marijuana cultivation industry is in California, but it is notorious for drying up Northern California streams, starving endangered fish, contributing to erosion, and spoiling water quality with massive amounts of pesticides and herbicides.
Now, with Gov. Jerry Brown signing SB 837 on June 27, marijuana growers are required to obtain state irrigation water permits.
California Fish and Wildlife Department used sophisticated satellite imagery of three key watersheds in the “Emerald Triangle” of Mendocino County, Humboldt County, and Trinity County in 2014 to try to develop agricultural statistics from the heart of California marijuana cultivation. They found that pot cultivation has doubled since 2009, and that each...
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