Yes I think the all wise California government should step in an dictate what and how farmers should grow.
Do these idiots ever think things through?
good grief!
Bet if California kicked out all of their illegal aliens they would have plenty of water left for US citizens.
To cut their water usage, perhaps the farmers should only be allowed to grow enough food for their own families. That should solve the problem. (Absolutely clueless environmentalists deserve to starve.)
Well, I remember back in the ‘70s not flushing the toilet while they grew rice in the desert.
“Yes I think the all wise California government should step in an dictate what and how farmers should grow. “
Simple to solve.
Allow the rights owners to sell the water on the open market to the highest bidder.
Farmers can then choose which crops they wish to grow based on the market price of water. They can even lock in supplies for 10 years at a time because the senior rights owners can sell as they please.
And the Big Valley will shift from peaches, grapes, walnuts and almonds...to olives. And the north valley can still produce rice.
But the other side of the Pacheco pass? I don’t know what you guys will do. Is there even any water over there?
Can Five Year Plans be far behind?
Urban, sustainable peeps need to pay to get their potable water from the Pacific.
Blow up Hetch Hetchy, et al., and let the rivers run free, except for agricultural irrigation.
What is really incomprehensible is that Moonbeam would have actually assured himself of a positive legacy for actually, once in his life, doing something that benefited the people of California. Too bad, I guess Brown just couldn't fight his nature.
The government of California has abdicated their responsibility to perform any of the functions for which they collect gobs of taxes-
roads? crappy....water storage? no increase in storage for dozens of years, they punish homeowners who try to keep their landscape barely alive, A water bond was passed in 2014 for $7B but it’s only for environmental projects - not water storage.....electricity? they encourage home owners to invest in and create their own electricity rather than ensuring copious amounts of cheap, plentiful electricity on an existing widespread electrical grid is sufficient....clean/safe cities? nope they’re sanctuaries for homeless drug addicts who harass families and they crap/piss wherever they like. Now they call the high cost of living a “weather tax”.
Whenever I complain, my liberal family says “well, if you don’t like it, why don’t you just leave???”
Exactly what we’re planning to do. California is chasing away high income, tax paying citizens who have worked for years to improve their schools, neighborhoods, communities...I will never look back.
I know! They could water their crops with recycled water!
I remember when politicians worked on solutions. Like more storage acreage, de-salinization plants, So the approximate 130,000,000 gallons used per year by illegal aliens would have no effect if it was applied to agriculture?
Water in California is shared across three main sectors.
Statewide, average water use is roughly 50% environmental, 40% agricultural, and 10% urban, although the percentage of water use by sector varies dramatically across regions and between wet and dry years. Some of the water used by each of these sectors returns to rivers and groundwater basins and can be used again. (These official estimates were last updated in 2010, so they do not reflect recent drought-related changes in water use.) The 80% figure is only representative of the amount of water used in agriculture that comes from irrigation. 20% comes from wells. This all comes from the 40% of water usage in the State by agriculture.
No need for water... use “Brawndo”
By all means lets have landscaped boulevards, corporate parks and residential lawns at the farmer’s expense.
Low value crops: Avocados, grapes, artichokes, pistachios...
High value crops: Weed.
Ping
Water wasting
San Jose Mercury...in the heart of the Santa Clara Valley
which was once purported to be the best farming land in
the whole world. If it wasn’t it was right up there.
With urban encroachment farmers were taxed to death so
they made a killing selling their rich crop soil to
those who made their fortunes in concrete and asphalt.
Along comes an asshat, libtard editorial writer to
tell his slobbering readership what assholes farmers
are. Oh,my.
Farmers are not the problem. The problem is idiotic state officials who allowed 52 million acre-feet of water to be flushed out to sea during last year’s historic rains.
Criminal.
Close down the farms! Who needs food?
Time to watch Chinatown again.