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Farmers use water to transport grain

May 14, 2022 at 06:57 AM CST

Everyone knows Mike Simpson wants to breach four dams on the lower Snake River. I’ve said Simpson’s plan is totally absurd. Mr. Blair Moncur recently wrote I falsely claim Simpson’s dam breaching proposal will take “away precious water from Idaho’s farmers.” Mr. Moncur called me “a slick lawyer trying to use a false hot button issue to get votes” because the dams are located in Oregon and Washington, and no Idaho farmers pump water upstream from Oregon and Washington to water crops in Idaho.