We'll know the state is serious when it stops watering its golf courses.
California has plenty of water stop growing almonds, rice, and alfalfa in the desert. Alfalfa alone sucks up 5 million acre feet per year that’s enough water for 50 million people. Urban use of water in California is 10% of its total half of that is commercial and industrial so residential is 5% even assuming half of California resident’s were illegals that’s only 2.5% of the total hardly enough to make an impact. Grow dry land crops or fallow acres divert that water which is worth way more to the retail market. Only 2% of state GSP is agricultural in Cali so one a acrefoot per dollar of gross State product it makes more sense to divert water from agricultural use to commercial and industrial by a large margin. People like to beat the dead horse of illegals this and illegals that in this case it’s a textbook straw man argument as the numbers clearly show but hey don’t let facts get in the way of a good ole fashioned political hissy fit the left does it all the time why not the right too.
Here is the actual numbers to back the above observations.
https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
We'll know the state is serious when it stops watering its golf courses.
Bull shit. You're trying to sugar coat the issue. I find that quite interesting.
Millions of illegals and American hating foreign nationals in CA have literally choked off the hospitals, schools, jails and social services that were once met for legitimate citizens. No?
And even if millions of illegals use such little water as you claim, do ya think the Communist/leftist who've been encouraging and aiding and abetting millions to enter CA have your best interest in mind?
Do ya think hiring thousands of illegals and American hating foreign nationals over the past 30 years into positions of authority/power, support common senses policies regarding resources in CA?
Ya know they're even pushing laws now which will allow for illegals to be cops in CA?
Hissy fit? You're FOS.
The biggest problem is not agriculture but that illegal aliens are not stamped "return to sender" loaded into a catapult and sent back across the border.
I know it is not what you, in the depths of your desire to turn the US in the a third world hell hole that can not feed it's self want, but it is the answer.