California Is Solving Its Water Problems by Flooding Its Best Farmland
“I remember taking so many tours out there,” said Rentner, “and all the public funding agency partners would go, ‘OK, so you have a million dollars in hand, and you still need how many? How are you going to get there?’”“I don’t know,” Rentner told them in response. “We’re just gonna keep writing proposals, I guess.”Even once River Partners bought the land in 2012, Rentner found herself in a permitting nightmare: Each grant came with a separate set of conditions for what River Partners could and couldn’t do with the money,…