I live in California our water problems are not from the drought it self it is from years of mismanaging our water resources her in California. the democratic party is more concerned with high speed rail in the central valley then it is with solving our water problems. where I live the water problems would be over if they would just stop divert the water they our sending into the San Francisco bay.
The system so screwy. Farmers have to use their full allotment or lose it, so they grow crops that are already in surplus, like alfalfa. That drops prices, so they get federal subsidies. And then the alfalfa gets exported to China. If you add up the water locked up in the exported alfalfa, it's a hundred billion gallons a year. That's the equivalent of six months of what the DWP delivers to 4 million residents in Los Angeles. Alfalfa and almonds alone account for more than half the water use in the state every year.