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lokar 2 hours ago

The only water problems are for farmers growing in a semi-arid valley. California has droughts, not water shortages.

EgregiousCube 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Not the /only/ water problems... https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/conservation/regs/water_effic...

lokar 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m not sure what to focus on in that site, what did you have in mind?

Agg uses like 80% of consumer water. Almost all of this is land that has only been farmed since the Feds build a bunch of water projects starting in the 30s.

Most of the irrigated farm land is owned by big corporations and extremely wealthy families. They push a narrative of mismanagement and shortages to get urban areas to use less and less while they resist investing in better irrigation methods.