I have yet to meet a conservative, even from California, who thinks the state's insane water policy makes a lick of sense. Perhaps a majority of the state's voters, living and dead, support wasting half of the fresh water attempting to restore an imagined pre-19th century riparian idea. I think it's dumb, and Cali is going to pay the price at some point.
Interesting to see that your hostility to almond farming extends to rice and Ag in general. Does that same hostility apply to the state's weed crop as well?
There is more ag in CA than can be sustained.
It is not possible to refuse land use for ag.
So the water is allocated. 50% for the rivers. 40% for ag. 10% for potable use.
When ag runs out of their 40%, tough shit.
And I know dozens of conservatives in CA. You don’t know any. I grew up with these guys, went to school with them.
Ask any family farmer at 640acres or less and they’ll tell you the problem lies with the enormous corporate farms growing export crops.
Such as almonds...80% go out of the country, only 5% is consumed in CA. Just as most of Calusa’s rice crop goes to Asia.
“Farmers” were not desperate for water 30 years ago, and under the same allocations.
It’s the explosion of corporate farms that is demanding the change in allocation.
Great farm land. Not enough water.
Again, you don’t know any conservatives...or farmers...in CA. And you don’t know shit about this subject.