The water systems were put in specifically for agricultural use in the early days. California is an agricultural state. If morons want to redirect the water to some other use, or cut it off from areas where it was explicitly created to facilitate farming in the first place, then they better be ready to depopulate the state since agriculture, particularly in light of the states propensity to price itself out of the industrial labor market, is providing much of the tax revenue...
Mark Twain
Totally agree. In the early days of cities in California, farms were everywhere near and in city limits. I remember them as a youth, all just about disappeared over the last 60 years around SF. Then there was a shift during the 20th century of growth of the cities that pushed farms out of the cities. Only a few remain. Liberals came into power and forgot about the needs of the farmers, and so did regular folks. This whole water shortage thing is a political game caused by the Democrats taking power, a bunch of fools. The water should be there for the farmers, not so much for the cities that waste it.