article_snippet.sent: Delta farmers don't deny using as much water as Delta farmers need.
article_snippet.sent: But Delta farmers say Delta farmers're not stealing it because Delta farmers history of living at the water's edge gives Delta farmers that right.
article_snippet.sent: Still, Delta farmers have been asked to report how much water Delta farmers're pumping and to prove Delta farmers legal rights to it.
article_snippet.sent: The fight pitting farmer against farmer is playing out in the Delta, the hub of the state's water system.
article_snippet.sent: Some is pumped — or diverted — by Delta farmers to irrigate Delta farmers crops, and some is sent south though canals to Central Valley farmers and to 25 million people statewide.
article_snippet.sent: Nancy Vogel, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Water Resources, said 'thousands of acre-feet of water a day for a couple of weeks' were released into the Deltathe Delta.
article_snippet.sent: That in turn prompted a joint letter by the Department of Water Resources and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation calling for an investigation into how much water the Delta farmers are taking — and whether the amount exceeds how much water Delta farmers rights to it. '
article_snippet.sent: Some 450 farmers who hold 1,061 water rights in the Delta and the Sacramento and San Joaquin river watersheds were told to report Some 450 farmers who hold 1,061 water rights in the Delta and the Sacramento and San Joaquin river watersheds water diversions, and Katherine Mrowka, state water board enforcement manager, said a vast majority responded.
highlights_snippet.sent: The prime suspects are farmers whose families have tilled fertile soil there for generations .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Delta farmers say Delta farmers're not stealing it because Delta farmers history of living at the water's edge gives Delta farmers that right .
  