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Water Subsidies

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Big farms found to get most water subsidies

Cost often a fraction of what residents pay in L.A. region
San Francisco Chronicle

Farmers Fill Up at Federal Water Trough

Big growers on Fresno County's west side reaped at least $24 million in 2002 water subsidies, an activist group says
Los Angeles Times

It's tell-all time on water front

Group names names on beneficiaries of irrigation project.
Sacramento Bee

Farming giants get water, funds

Associated Press

Study Calls for Parity

Stockton Record

Farm subsidy program blasted

Environmentalists say funds not meant for corporate farms.
Fresno Bee

Report: Big farms soak up project benefits

Taxpayers pony up as much as $416 million a year in water subsidies, agency says
Bakersfield Californian