Letter to Assemblymember Marie Waldron:

We would like to thank you for your successful efforts to have water agencies in our area be allowed to exempt agriculture water from state restrictions. Your quick, appropriate, and effective actions will help the struggling agriculture industry, the state’s largest.

The reality is that any increase in the cost of water for production of agricultural products will have to be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices. Or if the increased costs can not be recovered, the industry and our communities will be negatively impacted. My observations have been when agricultural production...