Actually, there were plenty of apples in the 1920s. They all died after the LA aqueduct siphoned off all of the watershed from the entire Eastern Sierras. There were many farms from Owens Valley to San Bernardino that were lost due to the loss of water. LA bought a single strip of land along the base of the mountains and took all the water. The farmers spent quite a few years blowing up sections of the aqueduct in protest, but they never had the political power to do anything. Such was the beginning of global warming...
“The farmers spent quite a few years blowing up sections of the aqueduct in protest, but they never had the political power to do anything. Such was the beginning of global warming...”
But I think that the LAMWD’s “chickens have come home to roost” as regards the Owen River Valley water. I recall a court case not too many years back where LAMWD was told to cut way back on the water they were taking. I know that Mono Lake was threatened by their taking too much water, an now it’s getting healthy again. The Los Angeles Basin has been allowed to grow way beyond the water that there is to support it. They have lost a big chunk of the Colorado River water due to AZ taking what was always theirs. Who knows, maybe the illegals will self-deport when they start dying of thurst.