When I was a young kid of 6 I can remember seeing the salmon runs on the Tuolumne River, a tributary to the San Joaquin. It's also the source for Hetch Hetchy dam which provides water to San Francisco...exclusively.
The water would run RED. 100's of thousands if not millions of 6-10lb fish.
But those days are over and have be3en for AT LEAST 40 years.
That water is now being diverted to flow out into the Bay in the minute hope against hope that salmon can survive from plants.
We don't have that much water.
San Francisco takes it all at Hetch Hetchy.
Maybe they should rethink letting in millions of illegals to drink their water...
A quick look on google maps shows the town was built on a desert. Across the highway is green farmland but it's brown on their side of the highway. Guess that master-planned community wasn't so master planned.
Try water witching. It worked for Llano, TX four years ago.
Have residents started stealing water from each other yet?
As always, the root of the problem is government. Government manages the water supply, decides who gets what, and how much they have to pay, regardless of the actual costs involved. As Milton Friedman said, if the government were in charge of the deserts, there would soon be a shortage of sand.
Let people pay what water actually costs, especially farmers who are being subsidized to grow water hungry crops in arid areas. The free market works when government stays out of the way.