On the other hand, I'm sure the federal government will find some extremely expensive way to provide water at the expense of the taxpayers.
There was a time in America when making bad decisions (like living in a huge city in a desert) had negative consequences.
Agree completely but I think you will find the agricultural owners and managers to be mostly conservative, only to be out-voted and out-represented by urban, farm-worker and union voters that favor Democrats. This does not include the wine-makers as that is usually an income negative profession and largely owned by liberal types with money from elsewhere.
On an aside, I am old enough to remember when popular magazines were full of glowing visions of the future. In particular I remember visions of ocean-front nuclear power plants with attached desalination plants that would end all drought problems. Like the sky-car I was promised, I suppose!
I’m not sure what bad decisions you think were made? We’re in a drought during what is normally the rainy season - it hasn’t rained much in over a year.
BTW, most of the affected framers and ranchers are conservatives. Most of suburbs with landscapes to irrigate and cars to wash tend to be conservative.
The libs live in their little rat warrens in urban areas and hardly notice there is a drought.
Guess they don’t need all those illegal immigrants now to pick the produce now since there won’t be any farms left...