New Cuts Will Make It Harder for Idaho's Department of Water Resources to Administer Water Rights

New cuts will make it harder for Idaho's Department of Water Resources to administer water rights

A person looks over the South Fork of the Snake River Canyon in Idaho. (File photo courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management)Editor’s note: This Idaho Capital Sun story is the next in our series focused on the impacts of additional 1% and 2% budget cuts to state agencies approved by the Legislature’s budget committee for fiscal year 2026 and fiscal year 2027. You can read how the proposed budget cuts may affect the state’s mental health court pr…

New cuts will make it harder for Idaho’s Department of Water Resources to administer water rights

Editor’s note: This Idaho Capital Sun story is the next in our series focused on the impacts of additional 1% and 2% budget cuts to state agencies approved by the