This morning at 10:00 a.m. Eastern, Alliance Executive Director Samantha Barncastle will testify before the U.S. House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries at a hearing titled “The Federal Reclamation Program’s Next Century.” If you want a front-row seat to what she’s saying on your behalf, you can watch here. The May Monthly Briefing has the full story and more, and it’s available right now.

Read the May Monthly Briefing HERE.

Here’s what we’re covering this month:

• We’re making the case in Washington that conservation alone cannot close the West’s water gap — and why federal investment in infrastructure needs to match the scale of the crisis
• What we saw and said at the ACWA Spring Conference in California, including our work on Reclamation’s realignment initiative and what that means for local water managers
• What the proposed FY2027 Interior budget would mean for Western water programs — and why we’re pushing back
• Where the Farm Bill stands after House passage, and what the Senate fight ahead looks like
• The Biden-era Public Lands Rule is gone — what the rescission means for irrigation districts and agricultural operations across the West
• ESA reform is heating up in Congress and at the administrative level, including the first use of the “God Squad” exemption in over 30 years
• Drought is no longer episodic. We break down what is happening right now in the Colorado River Basin and what it means for the months ahead

Reach out anytime at samantha@familyfarmalliance.org, and thank you, as always, for standing with us.

Samantha Barncastle
Executive Director, Family Farm Alliance