{"id":17191,"date":"2023-08-01T14:32:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=17191"},"modified":"2023-08-01T14:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:32:20","slug":"jeff-advocates-for-farmers-in-klamath-water-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/jeff-advocates-for-farmers-in-klamath-water-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff aboga por los agricultores en la cuenca de agua de Klamath"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>En mayo de 2010, el Departamento de Agricultura de EE. UU. declar\u00f3 la cuenca de Klamath como zona de desastre federal debido a las condiciones de sequ\u00eda. Los Klamath hab\u00edan luchado contra la sequ\u00eda en el pasado: la escasez de agua en 2001 provoc\u00f3 el cierre del sistema de riego federal, lo que perjudic\u00f3 a las familias de agricultores y desgarr\u00f3 a la comunidad con protestas. La gesti\u00f3n posterior del agua perjudic\u00f3 a los peces r\u00edo abajo y condujo a una mortandad masiva de salm\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cuando comenz\u00f3 la sequ\u00eda de 2010, Jeff Merkley se reuni\u00f3 con l\u00edderes locales que hab\u00edan estado trabajando juntos para desarrollar un enfoque colaborativo para administrar el suministro limitado de agua y evitar conflictos en el futuro. Comunicaron que otra sequ\u00eda podr\u00eda significar que las granjas y ranchos familiares tendr\u00edan que cerrar, dejando cultivos y ganado con poca o sin agua, y que estaban profundamente preocupados de que otra sequ\u00eda pudiera dividir nuevamente a una comunidad que estaba tratando de trabajar unida. Jeff prometi\u00f3 ayudar a evitar otra crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cumpliendo esa promesa, Jeff trabaj\u00f3 con los l\u00edderes del Senado, el Senador Wyden y colegas de ambos partidos para obtener $10 millones de d\u00f3lares para la cuenca Klamath incluidos en un proyecto de ley de gastos de emergencia del Senado. El d\u00eda que el proyecto de ley estuvo en el piso, Jeff cancel\u00f3 sus reuniones y pas\u00f3 incansablemente de senador republicano a senador, abordando sus preocupaciones para que permitieran que la enmienda avanzara. Incluso llam\u00f3 al representante Greg Walden para que fuera al guardarropa republicano del Senado y ayudara a Jeff a persuadir a un colega republicano que alguna vez hab\u00eda servido en la C\u00e1mara con Walden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La financiaci\u00f3n que obtuvo Jeff se utiliz\u00f3 para un proyecto de tierra ociosa para que los agricultores pudieran recibir pagos de incentivos para evitar el riego durante la temporada de cultivo. Esto permiti\u00f3 a estos agricultores pagar sus facturas y evitar la ruina financiera al tiempo que permiti\u00f3 que los suministros limitados de agua se extendieran a\u00fan m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeff se complaci\u00f3 en ayudar a los agricultores y ganaderos durante la sequ\u00eda de 2010. Sin embargo, tambi\u00e9n era muy consciente de que la cuenca de Klamath necesita una soluci\u00f3n a largo plazo para sus desaf\u00edos de gesti\u00f3n del agua a fin de poner fin a d\u00e9cadas de guerras por el agua. Se comprometi\u00f3 con los l\u00edderes de la comunidad (distritos de riego, familias de ganaderos y agricultores, tribus que dependen de los flujos de los arroyos para apoyar a las poblaciones de peces nativos, grupos conservacionistas y organizaciones pesqueras) que si pudieran encontrar una soluci\u00f3n que todos pudieran apoyar, \u00e9l lo har\u00eda. todo lo que est\u00e9 a su alcance para hacerlo realidad. En 2011, present\u00f3 un proyecto de ley para implementar la soluci\u00f3n de la comunidad y actualmente se est\u00e1 asociando con el Senador Wyden para aprobar una versi\u00f3n actualizada de la legislaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/JM-looking-over-the-Klamath-Basin-eaw_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/JM-looking-over-the-Klamath-Basin-eaw_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/JM-looking-over-the-Klamath-Basin-eaw_500-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/JM-looking-over-the-Klamath-Basin-eaw_500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/JM-looking-over-the-Klamath-Basin-eaw_500-12x12.jpg 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared the Klamath Basin a federal disaster area due to drought conditions. 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