Any article written on water policy must first answer the question: Who really benefits from low-cost water? The farmer? Or the consumer? It’s obvious this nation’s cheap food policy

benefits consumers who pay the world’s smallest percentage of per capita income for their food and fiber. The Food Security Act (farm bill) and the federal and state water projects are not

designed to subsidize farmers per se, but to assure this state and nation of an affordable, abundant and secure supply of food. Any person claiming that farmers are unfairly targeted for

excessive government handouts hasn’t considered the social, political and economic prospects of dependence upon foreign food. As for our efficiency on the farm, pure economics dictate that