Pauli said dwindling water supplies will force farmers to reduce planted acreage and pump more expensive underground water. When we can't plant, it means less food, fewer jobs and reduced benefit for wildlife and the environment. He said the cutoff in water supplies to farmers in the Klamath Basin this month should serve notice to farmers across the state that restrictions to protect salmon and other fish species will siphon water from farms and rural communities. Pauli said that importance of the rally is to bring farmers' plight to the attention of lawmakers and the public. He said the state's agricultural economy generates not just food, but more than a million jobs to the state's workforce.
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