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Provides funding for farmers to implement conservation practices; Encourages voluntary compliance to enhance water quality and conservation.

Ensures the quality of Americans' drinking water; Requires farmers to ensure that chemicals and runoff do not contaminate local water supplies.

Water rights are given to the first person to take water from a source for 'beneficial use'; Impacts farmers' access to irrigation particularly in the Western US.

Protects endangered and threatened species and their habitats; Farmers may have to modify or limit their water usage to protect critical habitats.

Discourages the conversion of wetlands to non-wetland areas; farmers must maintain conservation compliance to be eligible for federal agricultural benefits.

Amended the Clean Water Act; Set the basic structure for regulating pollutants discharges into the waters of the United States.

Allows landowners whose land abuts a natural watercourse to make reasonable use of it; May affect farmers with land adjacent to rivers or streams.

Regulates the distribution, sale, and use of pesticides; Farmers must adhere to label instructions and may be required to obtain certification for application.

Aimed to create sustainable management of groundwater; Requires development of Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) in California that will affect agricultural water usage.