[DoughtyOne]

If that were the case, every farm producing food in the state would be out of business immediately.

I don’t see that as the answer to our problems.

We still need to eat.

[GeronL]

I was trying to say let the cities starve.

I don’t think I would charge farmers anything or much for the water, personally

[norton]

Let them eat...almonds

Cruise between 'Frisco and L.A.;
(new) Vineyards galore and herds of trucks full of almonds. Not so very much else growing & darned few cattle.

But we have smelt, we have salmon, and we have water flowing into both S.F. and L.A. harbors.

PS: Your lawn is dead.